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

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.