In the recipe for great web design, typography is an essential ingredient.
Typography for the Web has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee flipped the switch in 1991. Back in the days of IE 1.0, good web typography was something of an oxymoron. Today things are different. Not only do we have browsers that support images (gasp!), but we have the opportunity to make our web pages come to life through great typography.
While I never experienced Internet Explorer 1, I still (vaguely) recall dabbling with Netscape 0.9… I think the only fonts that were supported were Times New Roman, and, er, Times New Roman…
