What is/was the purpose of the font Wingdings?

I never really bothered to find out and now that I think of it this has perplexed me for the last 15 years.

What is the purpose of ♒︎⧫︎⧫︎◻︎⬧︎🖳︎📭︎📭︎⍓︎□︎◆︎⧫︎◆︎.♌︎♏︎📭︎♎︎✈︎⬥︎🗐︎⬥︎🖲︎🕈︎♑︎✠︎♍︎✈︎?

Great design resource

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