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Am I the only one not getting this? Is it supposed to make me want to blink along with it? What's the point?

You are either too young or not a web developer :D

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...

I'm guessing, "too young".

"Eeh...back in my day, it were blink and marquee tags as far as the eye could see. We were doing web development for below minimum wage back then you see, and every hour, our cruel overlords would drag us out of the basements in which we worked and beat us. CSS?! HTML Tables it was in MY day lad!! Didn't 'ave none of this fancy styling business. We were at the HTML coal face then, yer see! Don't know yer born you young 'uns...."

etc.etc.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Marquee tags on fire off the shoulder of Geocities. I watched blink tags glitter in the dark near Tannhäuser.com. All those websites will be lost in time, like tears in rain...

In today's edition of How To Feel Old: there are some professional web developers younger than <blink>.

I remember starting my webdev on Adobe PageMill on an orange iMac, on a 56K dial-up. Man time goes fast...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element

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