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title: The origins of the <blink> tag
linkurl: http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag

date: 2012-04-20 08:48:46+00:00

tags:
  - design
  - development
  - history
  - html
---

Funny story from [Lou Montulli](http://www.montulli.org/lou), who is the credited inventor of the <blink> tag. As suspected of generations of web designers, it involved a bar and much alcohol:

> 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.
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add buttons, more post meta 2018-07-19 16:49:20 +02:00			`title: The origins of the <blink> tag`
all posts back to 2011 done 2013-11-19 23:21:19 +01:00			`linkurl: http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag`

start with content edits 2013-11-18 23:54:59 +01:00			`date: 2012-04-20 08:48:46+00:00`
categories & tags 2018-07-19 02:22:01 +02:00
start with content edits 2013-11-18 23:54:59 +01:00			`tags:`
formatting 2019-05-12 16:37:44 +02:00			`- design`
use development tag 2020-05-10 22:57:00 +02:00			`- development`
formatting 2019-05-12 16:37:44 +02:00			`- history`
			`- html`
start with content edits 2013-11-18 23:54:59 +01:00			`---`

			`Funny story from [Lou Montulli](http://www.montulli.org/lou), who is the credited inventor of the <blink> tag. As suspected of generations of web designers, it involved a bar and much alcohol:`

all posts back to 2011 done 2013-11-19 23:21:19 +01:00			`> 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.`