My uncle swore by using a <blink> tag on his homepage for 'attention grabbing'

Ngl, he built his site for his auto shop in Phoenix back in '97. He said it was the only way to make his phone number stand out. I tried to tell him it was annoying, but he wouldn't listen. A few years later, he complained that people kept saying his site gave them a headache. Anyone have a favorite terrible 90s design 'best practice' that was actually the worst?

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dixon.daniel1mo ago

Honestly I was on the blink tag's side for way too long, thought it was just harmless fun. Then I saw my cousin try to read my old GeoCities page and she literally had to look away from the screen. That visual proof of it causing actual pain totally flipped my view. Now I get why it had to die.

sean_ramirez1mo ago

The blink tag was a real menace. My old boss insisted on using animated construction worker GIFs to show the site was "under development" for two straight years. We eventually had to show him the server logs where people left after three seconds. Those visitor counts were the only thing that finally convinced him to stop.

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