• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        The story behind the blink tag is so ridiculous.

        At some point in the evening I mentioned that it was sad that Lynx was not going to be able to display many of the HTML extensions that we were proposing, I also pointed out that the only text style that Lynx could exploit given its environment was blinking text. We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. … Saturday morning rolled around and I headed into the office only to find what else but, blinking text. It was on the screen blinking in all its glory, and in the browser. How could this be, you might ask? It turns out that one of the engineers liked my idea so much that he left the bar sometime past midnight, returned to the office and implemented the blink tag overnight. He was still there in the morning and quite proud of it.

    • jlow@slrpnk.net
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      5 days ago

      I’m reading the whole thread on xcancel and I’m wondering if they’re all in on the joke / trolling or …

  • pseudo@jlai.lu
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    5 days ago

    There was a time where people were made fun of for saying they program in HTML. Now some people proudly explains you to use AI to write it. The same type of people use LLM as a calculator and are in awe for its publiposting capacities. Wait for the day they would program a AI to print on carbon paper. Two copy for one file in memory!!