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RSSOrigins of the BlinkTag
We named our company after the most hated HTML tag of all time. I just found a desciption of the origin of the BlinkTag by the person who came up with it, Lou Montulli. Its an interesting read, apparently it was meant as an easter egg and was initially undocumented:
“I remember thinking that this would be a pretty harmless easter egg, that no one would really use it, but I was very wrong. When we released Netscape Navigator 1.0 we did not document the blink functionality in any way, and for a while all was quiet.”
I like Lou’s reaction to the first time he saw the BlinkTag in the wild:
“It was a lot like Las Vegas, except it was on my screen, with no way of turning it off.”
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