Yep. I had ulterior motives. People were playing MUDs and we were limited by bandwidth so my motive was gaming. I was coming up with ways to add controls, images, animations, sound, etc and be able to do it over a low bandwidth connection. :)

Mine definitely was not human readable though. You'd use my tools to produce the Base 64 feed that could generate whatever was needed.

It mostly was theoretical. My first son was born and that changed my world and I didn't do much for two years. It was in those two years that the WWW explosion happened.