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>I will take this moment to repeat that it would take less than a second to make those links blue instead of purple and the design would already be infinitely more usable.

It seems they intentionally took a second to change the default behavior and make links purple. facepalm

Using this weird syntax I didn't know was legal: <body vlink="#ff0000" text="#000080" link="#800080" bgcolor="#ffffff">

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Your comment just made feel really old. It took me a second to come to realize why you'd think that might be incorrect syntax. I had to read it 3 or 4 times to finally figure out why you thought there'd be a problem (there isn't one... if it's twenty years ago).

I see a problem. "#000080" is not a web safe color. Safer to go with "#000066" to support a wider range of monitors.

> Using this weird syntax I didn't know was legal: <body vlink="#ff0000" text="#000080" link="#800080" bgcolor="#ffffff">

They're deprecated attributes[1], but back in the 90s before CSS became meta, it was the norm.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.1

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