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Teapot on April 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The origins of the blink HTML element

And animated gifs. They all have thier uses though. It's harder to think anything useful for blink.

The cops needs the blink tag for thier emergency ASCII,

       _<blink>o</blink>___
  ____/ _| _ \___
 | o           o |

alttag on April 20, 2012 [–]

Several years ago I visited a site that purported to have discovered the only acceptable use for the blink tag:

  Schrödinger's cat is <blink>not</blink> dead.

EliAndrewC on April 21, 2012 | [–]

I believe that this is the origin of that joke: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427

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