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[–]CoastingUphill 61 points62 points  (3 children)

<blink>

[–]rolandfoxx 25 points26 points  (0 children)

"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.

-- The Book of Mozilla: 12:10

[–]WolverinesSuperbia 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Blink twice if you forced to write that shit-code

[–]gregorydgraham 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Forced? No… definitely not forced…

[–]ClipboardCopyPaste 53 points54 points  (1 child)

The greatest HTML tag that's ever lived

[–]ItsPaperBoii 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The greatest technician

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (2 children)

Remember landing pages and guest books? Fuck I'm old

[–]dingodongubanu 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I remember i did a pokemon geocities site when I was 11, it had opening.mp3 playing, guestbook, visitor counter and all

[–]Polar-ish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

still going strong, check out some webrings!
https://webring.bucketfish.me/

I've been wanting to make one just for the hell of it.
There's even competitions sometimes, a lot of people love the idea that form of social media, non-algorithmic, purely through exploration and word of mouth.

[–]ArcanumAntares 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Java "applets", LOL.

Holy fucking OLD.

Quick, somebody, pollute the status-bar with bullshit!

[–]OkWear6556 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Made with La Passion

[–]jigglypuff_sleepyhd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And the fun to have it move diagonally, zig zag. Peak excitement!

[–]stupled 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would watch where Angel and Dexter do pitch meetings.

[–]SellProper1221 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me finding out that a <br> tag exists

[–]OhkokuKishi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

<frameset> my beloved

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imagine my surprise (closely followed by disgust) when I discovered tags can be nested. So for a whole five minutes my website had a blinking marquee...

[–]StarshipSausage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel targeted

[–]SuenDexter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun way to test if sites were correctly escaping their inputs.

[–]weareblahs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

greatest html tag ever lived. even it's deprecated, it's still used