Wow, here check this out!
http://www.openwap.org/turboard/
In some of the Text documentation, it cites streaming and also animation or "frames" which to me talks about a movie using graphics and the best way to send the graphics to the terminals using compression.???
Notice the part that says this on the website:
NAPLPS is a ANSI method for sending compressed and machine independent codes for drawing primatives. Other presentation protocols that NAPLPS can compare to are the Remote Imaging Protocol (RIP from TeleGraphix, commonly used in BBS's today) and PostScript (the printer drawing protocol).
NAPLPS came from a international developement effort including names such as AT&T, DEC, Exxon, IBM, IEEE, NCR, Texas Insturments, Xerox, etc who sat down in 1983 and decided on the best and fastest presentation protocol for online graphics.
The standard was officially published by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA T500-1983) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI X3.110-1983). You can download a copy of Michael Dillion's explaination of it by clicking here (NAPLPS.ZIP 49K). The RFC 965 discusses formats for a graphical communication protocol and mentions NAPLPS.