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Re:The origins of the blink HTML element by Teapot on Thursday April 19, 2012 @08:14PM (#3865859)
And animated gifs. They all have thier uses though. It's harder to think anything useful for blink.

The cops needs the blink tag for thier emergency ASCII,

       _<blink>o</blink>___
  ____/ _| _ \___
 | o           o |
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Re:The origins of the blink HTML element by alttag on Thursday April 19, 2012 @08:37PM (#3865940)
Several years ago I visited a site that purported to have discovered the only acceptable use for the blink tag:

  Schrödinger's cat is <blink>not</blink> dead.
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Re:The origins of the blink HTML element by EliAndrewC on Saturday April 21, 2012 @12:47AM (#3870932)
I believe that this is the origin of that joke: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427
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