You’re being sarcastic, I assume. I remember WebTV. The NTSC color palette doesn’t really equate very well to Super VGA or Apple’s digital equivalent, and images designed for the Internet don’t tend to look very good on an old CRT analog television set. And then there’s the resolution. On those first-generation WebTVs, even hooked up to high-end TVs, it frankly sucked, and the browser limitations on WebTV were an additional problem. WebTV was basically what you got for your grandma so she could get e-mail without having to deal with a computer. It was not what you got to improve your surfing experience. I mean, yeah, you could get a bigger screen a lot cheaper, but not a better one. There’s a very simple reason why, inch for inch, TVs used to be cheaper than monitors. They were lower quality.

Mind you, the technology for converting digital output for a television set improved, but those first-generation WebTVs were not impressive from an image quality standpoint, and you certainly did not get better color out of a TV set than you got out of a decent computer monitor of the same vintage.

all we have now are tiny plastic black-on-black squares
with microscopic screens and endless menus,
that can only be properly used by tiny Japanese people with
perfect vision!