As a gen-alpha kid, i confirm that is not true.

I just realized that you are the author of the article seemingly not knowing the proper way to do it (or maybe I am missing something), thus confirming what the above commenter said. What's wrong with just downloading the zip and then @font-face in css?

Side note: it really IS people rediscovering css from 20 years ago!

It's not rediscovering CSS, i only started learning CSS this month