You're right. I did not realize your blog post was from 2008 (I falsely assumed it was a recent post). I based my assertions off of the fact that Google has a cache of the page in question dating back to July 1st 2010: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a6pIrYo.... Unfortunately, it is too late to edit my original comment to remove my inaccuracies. Thanks for digging this information up. :)

It was clear what it stood for back in 1997. We must have went through some sort of very minor Dark Ages around 2008 which only plunged knowledge of HREF into darkness, but left everything else intact. :)