This 1000x! I damn near fell off my chair when i saw my daughter's school do this...then noticed that it was done with ever, single, official memo from the school and asociated school district.

Which makes me feel like here's how things really went down back in the day...(with much respect and admiration to TBL)...

Tim Berners-Lee: Look everyone, there's this thing called the web, where a worldwide network of authors can publish content, and the audience/visitors/recipients accessing said content have plenty of liberty to adjust the style/look of said content to suit their display needs (e.g. increase text size, expand window/width of content, etc.)...So, no one needs to all have/use the same software/application, plus this all helps with accessibility concerns, plus everyone can use different "reading/viewing" as well as authoring software/apps, etc...Cool, right!!

(Almost) Everyone: Nah, we're good.

Tim Berners-Lee: But, wouldn't you want to reap the benefits of the flexibility that the world wide web can afford to everyone?

(Almost) Everyone: We don't understand the flexibility being offered here...We just want the content to behave like books have ever since the late 1500s...nothing should change, every pixel should remain fixed/static, and the control should always exist within the hands of the author, and not the audience/readers. Besides, we will all just use some silly application like MS Word, insert our content and signatures exactly how we want it to display in the Word document (cheesy or not), and add some useless clipart, and control it 100%. That's what we want, and that's what we understand.

Tim Berners Lee: But, don't you see that html docs (or something like that) as published via this world wide web can also help people who struggle financial, or don't have the means of affording tech, etc. since they need not have to purchase all the premium applications to view and edit content?? There can be no-cost or low-cost options for the software that poor folks can use, and even just this can at least slightly help to level things out for inequality, and so much more. Much like the original print press, this - and other aspects of the web - can give many more people access to knowledge and wonderful, essential content!

(Almost) Everyone: Meh. For poor folks who can not afford MS Word, I'm sure Microsoft (and other big companies) will "solve" this by donating "freemium" versions of Word, and de facto establish Word docs as a standard format. Or, people can just borrow more than they can afford, and go into debt to afford the latest, premium technology. Who cares about MS' nefarious business practices. By the way, Mr. Berners-Lee, you should really call your "web thing", something better like "world wide Word docs (wwds)"...plus allow for way more emoji usage, because that would help me avoid having to think and write expressive prose...icons are easier for us to convey meaning, and its not due to our collective laziness, not at all. Just look for instance, how advanced our culture would become if we could, say, deliver cat photos (without much text/content added) as fast as possible to other rich people around the affluent world!?!

Tim Berners-Lee: (Throws his hands up in frustration, focuses the remainder of his career on speech-making, academia, and a few start-ups, and leaves the flock to fend for themselves, which of course get taken over and controlled by for-profit companies.)

;-)