The Internet in the 90s was mostly text based. Do you know how long it took to view an image of considerable quality? I sure as hell would not have wasted my time (which was also limited because you paidby the minute) to look up this guy.

I’m intimately familiar with waiting for interlaced 4 colour gif images to load at 1200 bps.

Wow you were and early adopter. I remember my first modem being 14.4k and I was the first along the people I knew at the time. It was an external modem that plugged in the parallel port.

I ran a BBS back then too.