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The Futurists were over-the-top (and sometimes more typographically out-there than this web page, in a pre-DTP time!) so I highly doubt the page is meant to be taken entirely seriously.

cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurist_cooking or http://www.designhistory.org/Avant_Garde_pages/Futurism.html

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The original Futurist Manifesto (1909) [1] is indeed over-the-top and out-there. Much more about them in Wikipedia [2]. I don't see the connection between those original Futurists and the linked Futurist Programming article, maybe none was intended.

1. https://www.societyforasianart.org/sites/default/files/manif...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism

Yep. There is (in my opinion) a genealogical line that connects Futurism to Dada to Punk. Certainly their typography presents very similarly. In spirit, they all spent a lot of energy rejecting the status quo and not much in developing alternatives.

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