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The origins of the blink HTML element

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Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. The evening progressed pretty normally from there, with a fair amount more drinking and me meeting the girl who would later become my first wife.

Invent and meet the wife in one day. I'm pretty sure this qualifies for evil genius...

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

#7

We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. The evening progressed pretty normally from there, with a fair amount more drinking and me meeting the girl who would later become my first wife. Invent and meet the wife in one day. I'm pretty sure this qualifies for evil genius...

Key words being "first wife". Combine that with , it sounds like it was a bad night all around.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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post #7

We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. The evening progressed pretty normally from there, with a fair amount more drinking and me meeting the girl who would later become my first wife. Invent and meet the wife in one day. I'm pretty sure this qualifies for evil genius...

Key words being "first wife". Combine that with , it sounds like it was a bad night all around.

:) that was really funny.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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post #7

We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. The evening progressed pretty normally from there, with a fair amount more drinking and me meeting the girl who would later become my first wife. Invent and meet the wife in one day. I'm pretty sure this qualifies for evil genius...

Key words being "first wife". Combine that with , it sounds like it was a bad night all around.

Didn't read the article, but did it say "first and only"? ;)

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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post #7

We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. The evening progressed pretty normally from there, with a fair amount more drinking and me meeting the girl who would later become my first wife. Invent and meet the wife in one day. I'm pretty sure this qualifies for evil genius...

Key words being "first wife". Combine that with , it sounds like it was a bad night all around.

hahaha, nice :)
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