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Ancient Web: Sean Barrett’s 2004 Web Rant Worried Documents Were Being Forgotten

Sean Barrett's September 2004 essay criticized web standards discussions for prioritizing applications while neglecting the browser's role as a reader of ordinary documents.

Ancient Web: Alan Wood Explained Why Webdings Could Break the Web

Alan Wood's Webdings reference maps 223 proprietary symbol-font characters to Unicode while explaining why old HTML font tricks failed across operating systems.