This has been submitted many time. Most popular previous submissions:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490069" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490069</a> (158 points, 1727 days ago, 33 comments)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7797878" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7797878</a> (13 points, 307 days ago, 8 comments)<p>Also relevant. Remotion of the blink tag in Firefox:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6170392" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6170392</a> (101 points, 599 days ago, 93 comments)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182690" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182690</a> (309 points, 597 days ago, 146 comments)<p>This last submission has two interesting comments, that I'll copy partially:<p>> <i>I fixed blink in Mozilla twice in the old days, back when I was running around looking for things to fix.</i> [...]<p>> <i>You can put jwz's blink in your browser profile's userContent.css to make it work on all websites</i> [...]
Great Read! I have been mulling over the idea of creating a curated list of interesting Programming Stories. Here are some of those which I can remember from top of my head:<p>* 500 Mile Email [<a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html</a>]<p>* Infinitely Profitable Program [<a href="http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55" rel="nofollow">http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55</a>]<p>* The PGPi Scanning Project [<a href="http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/</a>]<p>* DirectX vs OpenGL [<a href="http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/88055/75581" rel="nofollow">http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/88055/75581</a>]<p>Think anyone can contribute?
Juuuuuuuuuuuuust in case anyone hasn't seen this before...<p><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?q=blink+tag#safe=off&q=blink+tag" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?q=blink+tag#safe=off&q=blink+...</a>