Yesterday I was reminiscing with someone about the ‘blink’ tag. When I was first on the Internet, I used to 
write html code in notepad, saving it as *.html. It then turned into a webpage (obviously). That’s how I created my very first ‘homepage’ on geocities!
Favourite annoying ‘effect’ (we didn’t have CSS then) was the blink tag. i.e.
<blink>blue</blink>
It was kinda cool, but very quickly got annoying. The inventor of the blink tag apparently said that
he considers [it] to be “The worst thing I’ve ever done for the Internet.”
I also remember now what the ‘computer rooms’ at the University of Cologne were - and in fact still are - called: CIP Pool 
Filed under: Culture, Internet | Tagged: blink tag, geocities, HTML, Internet
check this out to see which other tags will be scraped in the next edition of HTML: http://www.builderau.com.au/program/html/soa/HTML-5-aims-to-formalise-Semantic-HTML-/0,339028420,339290105,00.htm
You will no longer be able to use the underline element for underlining text, and strike is gone as well. It is interesting to see the bold and italics elements are still in place. One element that is often overused is ; beginning with HTML 5, you should use CSS to horizontally centre elements.
>kicking “center” is a bit much, I think - in particular in the era of blogging, when not everyone is able to edit their CSS!
hm, yes, I think we need ‘center’! Especially at my work, where we use a bloody CMS where you can’t edit anything on the ’shop floor’ level (i.e. the code)
It’s going to take a while until browser will stop supporting it though - it”ll just be no longer encouraged. Does blink still work in comments here?
Nope, doesn’t.