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 [...]
In honor of Geocities shutting down today, XKCD redesigned their site in Geocities style. This redesign included a prominent use of the blink tag (including some HTML mistakes to show the markup).
I was really excited when I read about Google Chrome Frame yesterday. Its a browser plug-in for Internet Explorer that replaces the internals with that of Google Chrome, a much more modern browser that supports recent web standards and generally just works. IE is notorious for rendering pages improperly and not supporting new web standards [...]
Why a new name? Horne Nee Inc was a bit too risque for some of our clients, and blinktag was too clever to pass up. We were able to get the desired domain name sans “i”, but figured that “i” could be an optional, blinking character in the name. Why blinktag? The blink tag or [...]
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