Remember WebTV, that clever set-top box that was going to bring the Internet into Grandma’s living room in the 90s? Like everyone else, they had proprietary HTML tags that only their browser supported. In retrospect, that might not be such a bad thing.

I shudder to think what would have happened if their <blackface> tag became part of the HTML standard.

Seriously, blackface?  Was Al Jolson the project manager behind this?