The big annoyance was that back in the day, with posting boards and guestbooks being all the rage, (or just a badly made web page) people would open a blink tag and never close it and the browser would render everything after it on the page as blinking.
But at least it doesn’t have a spillover effect of turning every post that comes after it into an animated gif meme version of itself (as long as no one makes “memification” a feature of markdown, aynway).
The big annoyance was that back in the day, with posting boards and guestbooks being all the rage, (or just a badly made web page) people would open a blink tag and never close it and the browser would render everything after it on the page as blinking.
In a similar vein: U+202E “RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE”
I remember doing that once in 1996. Good times.
These days you can annoy everyone with gif images though ;-) Which sadly regularly happens on Github issues of major issues / bugs.
But at least it doesn’t have a spillover effect of turning every post that comes after it into an animated gif meme version of itself (as long as no one makes “memification” a feature of markdown, aynway).
Goes off to register memedown.com and apply to a startup accelerator.
Ha I worked with a guy who knew this person from KU, only the way he told it, this person was a strong advocate of the blink tag.