> You didn't have rich media because the Usenet was about exchange of thoughts and knowledge Also most (American, anyway...) clients couldn't support such larg

> You didn't have rich media because the Usenet was about exchange of thoughts and knowledge Also most (American, anyway...) clients couldn't support such large messages, since the choice of speed for most of us was 16.6, 28.8 and 56k modems at the time.