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The Origins of the <blink> tag (2008)
- ColinWright 12y agoI suspect the title has been Bowdlerized, omitting the relevant "<blink>" from it. Understandable, but annoying.
- halviti 12y agoI think this is from an old newsgroup post, if i'm not mistaken.
- gus_massa 12y agoThis has been submitted many time. Most popular previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490069 (158 points, 1727 days ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7797878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7797878 (13 points, 307 days ago, 8 comments) Also relevant. Remotion of the blink tag in Firefox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6170392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6170392 (101 points, 599 days ago, 93 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182690 (309 points, 597 days ago, 146 comments) This last submission has two interesting comments, that I'll copy partially: > I fixed blink in Mozilla twice in the old days, back when I was running around looking for things to fix. [...] > You can put jwz's blink in your browser profile's userContent.css to make it work on all websites [...]
- 3stripe 12y agoJuuuuuuuuuuuuust in case anyone hasn't seen this before... https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?q=blink+tag#safe=off&q=blink+tag https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?q=blink+tag#safe=off&q=blink+...
- shubhamjain 12y agoGreat Read! I have been mulling over the idea of creating a curated list of interesting Programming Stories. Here are some of those which I can remember from top of my head: * 500 Mile Email [http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html] * Infinitely Profitable Program [http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55 http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55] * The PGPi Scanning Project [http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/ http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/] * DirectX vs OpenGL [http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/88055/75581 http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/88055/75581] Think anyone can contribute?
- logone 12y agoI'm unsure if this would qualify, but here's the story behind favicon.ico: https://ruthlessray.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/inventing-favicon-ico/ https://ruthlessray.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/inventing-favic...
- Someone 12y agoYou definitely want the graphing calculator story [http://www.pacifict.com/Story/ http://www.pacifict.com/Story/], and likely also want to look at folklore.org, for example the -2000 lines story [http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Management http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...] There's also the stories of Knuth inventing and writing TeX and Metafont because he isn't happy with the way his books are typeset and of RMS and the Xerox 9700, but I don't know whether these have been written well yet.
- dizzystar 12y agoI've always liked The Story of Mel: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
- keithpeter 12y agoThe Royal McBee LPG-30 was the computer that Edward Lorenz was using to solve his simplified atmospheric model when he noticed a difference between different runs of the program depending on the rounding error when typing in parameters from the printout of a previous run.
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