This text is not blinking. Neither is this, or this. Those words are rendered on your screen in straightforward text with standard HTML embellishments like underline, bold, and italic. Once it was ...

I am widely credited as the inventor of the Blink tag. For those of you who are relatively new to the Web, the Blink tag is an HTML command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find ...

The tag is an HTML command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find its behavior to be extremely annoying.

When a user does a Google search for "blink html," every instance of the words "blink" and "html" on the resulting Google search results page will flash in and out.

Firefox 23 launched Tuesday, complete with a new "share" button and a number of useful security updates. But it also finally killed off the "blink" tag, an annoying staple of the Web's early days.

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