Of course, there is not a reason why the manual page cannot have images and figures. The whole PIC language exists to put diagrams into things like ?roff, and it was at one time de rigueur to format the manual pages to postscript and send them to the printer. It was also common in later times to generate PS or DVI output and view that with the appropriate viewer. Honestly viewing the manual pages with a plain text pager is the new, worse-is-better method.

I also need a pair of googly eyes that follow every movement of the mouse cursor and Neko, the tiny cat to sleep on it.

I guess since it’s a news article I assumed it was some bleeding edge implementation of something non-mainstream like a tiling window manager.

So I clicked through and was like… a couple pics would do way better at helping me understand what it was on about.

Then a reply here had a link of what looked my early 00s openbsd sparcstation desktop.

And suddenly it all made sense.

I probably was using twm the first time I used NCSA Mosaic. A few months later Al Gore gave a speech talking about the information superhighway.

it's possible the person asking the question is younger than good old manpages.

To be fair, they could. Some VT terminals could display ReGIS and Sixel graphics.

Sixel is a terrible standard, BTW, but at least it can be easily integrated into the character flow of a page. ReGIS (and Tektronix) can't.