Robert Whipple, Ph.D., professor in the Department of English, had his essay “The Evil Tags, <blink> and <marquee>: Two Icons of Early HTML and Why Some People Love to Hate Them,” a chapter in From A to <A>: Keywords of Markup (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) singled out for praise in a review that appears in Kairos (16:2).
In the essay, Whipple covers the history of the <blink> and <marquee> html tags, both of which were popular in the mid 1990′s as many people started their first websites and have since become a joke for many web designers and users. Whipple covers why the two tags were popular at one time, and why they come to premonition as one of the most hated html tags.
To read Whipple’s chapter, click here.
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