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I don't think <blink> every seemed like a good idea[0]. It was an undocumented easter egg that was created so that Lynx could have some of the advanced text formatting that was coming with the new graphical browsers.

[0] http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag

Thanks for the link -- great story! If only more web nuisances could be killed off so easily.

Quick plug for a Chrome extension I wrote that gets rid of the _blank target on links, if that behavior annoys you as much as it does me:

https://goo.gl/4D1ONu

I don't think that's much of an option. For instance i live in Japan and here most users expect that things will open in a new tab. Take a look at the amazon search results page as an example

http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82%A...