BlinkTag Inc » history http://blinktag.com Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:50:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Origins of the BlinkTag http://blinktag.com/origins-of-the-blinktag/ http://blinktag.com/origins-of-the-blinktag/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:50:54 +0000 Brendan Nee http://blinktag.com/?p=807 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.”

Read the rest of the Origin of the Blinktag.

]]> http://blinktag.com/origins-of-the-blinktag/feed/ 0 so this is why it’s so hard for me to bike to the gym http://blinktag.com/so-this-is-why-its-so-hard-for-me-to-bike-to-the-gym/ http://blinktag.com/so-this-is-why-its-so-hard-for-me-to-bike-to-the-gym/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:09:26 +0000 Jed Horne http://blnktag.com/?p=304

For those of you who’ve ever wondered why the dividing line between the Mission and SOMA is so janky.  It’s cool living in an area where people bother to keep track of this stuff.

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