ANSI graphics

I was playing around with connecting to some telnet bbses using syncterm this weekend and I got to wondering why nothing else can render ANSI graphics? Why can't we just load ANSI graphics into html? Why do we need specialized terminals?

>>1
Try using telnet to connect to a website on port 80. For example, www.google.com:80.

Once connected, type:


GET / HTTP/1.1[CRLF]
Host: www.google.com[CRLF];
User-Agent: Telnet[CRLF]
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1[CRLF]
[CRLF]

Where [CRLF] is you carriage-return/line-feed character sequence (if you're using Telnet on Windows, just press the enter key).

>>2
Actually, I just tried it you don't even need to type in that other stuff. Just type in:

GET / HTTP/1.1[CRLF]
[CRLF]

If you live in a different country other than the US, you'll get the redirect page, but otherwise you'll get back the full HTTP response and google home page HTML as text.