[PhilipRoman]

I bet this is what people felt when JavaScript was first demoed on the web.

In the year 2077, when each font will run it's own virtual machine on WASM containing a "minimal" Ubuntu image, some enlightened blogger will suggest server side rendered fonts as a performance improvement.

[petercooper]

JS felt less impressive to me when I first saw it, simply because it couldn't do much. However, I remember the showcase Microsoft put together to show off what CSS could do in IE3 and that was very cool at the time.

[pandeiro]

I remember that, too, and switched to IE for the next X years