> This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods?
I don't. Every style guide I've seen has recommended against it in any medium that is going to be presented in non-fixed-width type, and IME its a lot less distracting to have single-space-after-sentence-ending-punctuation in a fixed-width font than double-space-after in a proportional font, so I've pretty much abandoned the practice entirely except in very narrow circumstances (e.g., I'll usually still do it in source code comments.)
I think I first started adopting this practice around 1990 (about the same time I was finishing high school.)