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So Mosaic did it in 1993. I could have sworn WinHelp [1] (the help viewer built into Windows 3.0) did it in 1990, but looking it up it turns out their hyperlin

So Mosaic did it in 1993. I could have sworn WinHelp [1] (the help viewer built into Windows 3.0) did it in 1990, but looking it up it turns out their hyperlinks were dark green. My memory had changed them to blue retroactively... A couple of images: https://virtuallyfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WinHelp-from-Windows-NT-3.1-refresh.png https://virtuallyfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WinHelp-... https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~mgoetsch/cali/Windows%20Configuration/Windows%20Configuration%20Html/help0042.gif https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~mgoetsch/cali/Windows%20Config... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinHelp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinHelp

dboreham 1y ago
Thanks for posting because I had the same false memory that WinHelp used blue links. I certainly don't remember feeling that anything about the first browsers or html was new and surprising. It was more like "oh good someone made a free implementation of that obvious idea". There were plenty of documentation systems used industrially that also had links. Gopher existed.