Thu. 09/02 - What Is Grimace & Why Are Hyperlinks Blue?

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Why are hyperlinks blue? You ever think about that before? Plus, a look at the tech behind the wheelchairs and prostheses used by Paralympians. And what the heck is Grimace, the big purple McDonald’s mascot? A manager at a Canadian McDonald’s dropped a bombshell on the internet, but is he correct? Sponsor: Raycon, Get 15% off at buyraycon.com/kottke Links: Why are hyperlinks blue? (Mozilla Distilled) How Paralympic Wheelchairs and Prostheses Are Optimized for Speed and Performance (Scientific American) Specialized Sports Chairs and the People Who Use Them (New Mobility) Para sport explained: Wheelchairs in wheelchair sports (International Paralympic Committee) Award-winning manager opens up about life at McDonald's during pandemic (CBC) McDonald's manager explains that Grimace is "a taste bud" (Boing Boing) Is Grimace a taste bud? One McDonald's manager says yes (The Takeout) "Grimace is the embodiment of a milkshake" (McDonald’s Corporate, Twitter) Archivist weighs in (McDonald’s Corporate, Twitter) What the hell is McDonald's Grimace? (Mashable) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.1	thursday september 2nd 2021 i'm jackson bird today why are hyperlinks blue you ever think about
0:36.4	that before?
0:42.8	Plus, a look at the tech behind the wheelchairs and prostheses used by Paralympians.
0:45.9	And what the heck is Grimmis?
0:48.1	The big purple McDonald's mascot.
0:55.9	A manager at a Canadian McDonald's dropped a bombshell on the internet today, but is he correct? Here are some of the cool things from the news today. Have you ever questioned why hyperlinks are blue? I'm sure some
1:04.9	sites might make them a different color, but the standard is that 0-0-0-0-F-F-Hex code blue.
1:12.3	Where did this come from?
1:13.9	How did it become standard?
1:15.6	Elise Blanchard, over at Mozilla's distilled blog,
1:18.3	dug into the mystery behind blue hyperlinks last week.
1:22.0	Now, at Mosaic, one of the early browsers in 1993,
1:24.6	is often credited with being the first to use blue hyperlinks as we know
1:28.8	them today. But Blanchard wanted to dig deeper. She points to the HyperTize system that launched in
1:35.5	1983 as the first instance of links being embedded as the text themselves. Previously, they were
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