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I actually asked Marc Andreessen this question a few years ago while making a browser. Me: “why did you decide to make links blue?” Marc: “I sure as hell wasn
by suhail 1y ago
I actually asked Marc Andreessen this question a few years ago while making a browser.
Me: “why did you decide to make links blue?”
Marc: “I sure as hell wasn’t going to make them pink.”
Me: “what about green?”
Marc: “ew”
- drob518 1y agoCan’t fault his logic.
- DonHopkins 1y agoHere is some email between Ben Shneiderman and Mark Andreessen about it that I posted to the Internet History mailing list archive with their permission: https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2020-April/005961.html https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2020-Apri... And a couple of relevant papers: Embedded menus: Selecting Items in Context; Larry Koved and Ben Shneiderman; Communications of the ACM, Computing Practices, April 1986, Volume 29, Number 4, p. 312-318: https://donhopkins.com/home/documents/Koved-Embedded%20Menues-CACM-4-1986.pdf https://donhopkins.com/home/documents/Koved-Embedded%20Menue... An experimental comparison of a mouse and arrow-jump keys for an interactive encyclopedia; John Ewing, Simin Mehrabanzad, Scott Sheck, Dan Ostroff and Ben Shneiderman; International Journal of Man Machine Studies (1986) 24, p. 29-45: https://donhopkins.com/home/documents/Ewing-Ostroff-mouse-arrowkeys-IJMMS-1986-01-published.pdf https://donhopkins.com/home/documents/Ewing-Ostroff-mouse-ar...