


Problem was, the digital climate was moving too fast even for nice graphics. Bulletin board operators, some of whom had built out sizable businesses around their onetime hobbies, were aware of this problem, though, and were trying to help build a second life for their systems that modernized them for the next generation. Say what you will about the gracefulness of a text interface with colorful ANSI graphics, but for many consumers, it could simply not compete with the literal photos and graphical user interfaces of the World Wide Web. One of the most visible, for obvious reasons, was the graphics. Today in Tedium: Bulletin boards, love them or hate them, quickly became relics of their time for a few reasons.
