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the potential for dating stuff by font which seems obvious in retrospect but apparently wasn't
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Remember when Dan Rather was fired from CBS News, for rolling with the story that W. Bush was AWOL from his National Guard duty? It was proven out as a hoax because computer typography geeks could see,
immediately, that the supposedly-typewritten memo was a fake. Set in a modern proportional font, with modern kerning, in a style not available in 1973. (But which was the default fonts setting in MS Word at the time.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killia...ts_controversy
Our 2004 thread on the matter