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Does it even properly implement the <blink> tag?

Neocities just hosts web sites. It's up for the author of the site to write a page with <blink> (if they really want to), then for the browser that visitors use to visit that site to implement its functionality. The web host has nothing to do with it.

Not sure about <blink>, but I sampled a few random sites from their gallery[1] and all of them have <marquee>. <marquee> is deprecated[2] and no longer scrolls in Firefox, but still works in Chrome.

[1] https://neocities.org/browse

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

> <marquee> is deprecated

For some reason the Indian government LOVES marquee, to the point where it's almost a hallmark. Looks like marquee...finds a way.

[0] https://www.mygov.in/

[1] https://www.mea.gov.in/

[2] https://ociservices.gov.in/onlineOCI/

[3] https://www.passportindia.gov.in/psp

I don’t think Firefox or its ancestor Netscape Navigator ever supported <marquee>. It’s a non-standard tag that IE introduced and was pretty widely despised at the time (as was <blink> but at least text blighted by the latter stays put).

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