I've been working with an awful shopping cart product with template 'tags' that produce HTML containing <center> and many other unsemantic abominations.
You also see <font> tags still come up on stack overflow... Old tutorials will never die, it seems.
nothing wrong with font tags per se (well back then, anyway)... more a matter of what appears to be a complete lack of understanding of the difference between a tag and an attribute. The page is a wealth of HTML abominations and bad quotation mark placement:
