Why are hyperlinks blue?

>"why are hyperlinks blue" >"because i like blue"

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IMO he picked the best option out of the 256 available

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i mean, they have to be blue, is there any other option?

It's hard to imagine

If I imagine a different color, do I get a job?

But I know a nice theory. Why after clicking a link, the color changes from blue to purple? Because you "red" it.

On behalf of all colorblind people everywhere, thanks for not choosing red or green. I was able to tell the difference between visited and unvisited links because he made this choice.

brutalist blue

Art Deco.

That's actually a wonderful UX decision from his side too, blue is the most visible color for color blind people making early web days accessible. What a man😅!

Bro really said

Next question: why are visited links purple?

so wild when I heard this! haha love it

Glad you enjoyed it! More shorts coming

"Everything around you was created by people no smarter than you" - Steve Jobs

and why purple for visited links?

It’s pmarca’s world, we’re all just living in it

Because blue was one of the few colors clearly distinguishable on early low-resolution monitors, and underlined blue text had never been widely used in print, making links obvious to users.

So basically… the internet is blue because 90s monitors sucked 🤣

Wait 50 years for some teacher saying some bs that hyperlinks are blue because "something something symbolism blah blah blah".

TL;TW: Make decisions on personal likes could be the best decision.

@grok how did Marc Andreeson get to make the decision relating to the color of hyperlinks?

chad

Sounds like a pretty good reason to me!

It’s crazy how many things are like this, Numpad for calling, keyboard layouts etc. the designer is in the designs

Pretty based tbh 🟦🫡

>Product Manager: We need to user-test 41 colors. >Boss: I like this one 🔹

someone made everything means i must make something

Changing all my hyperlinks across my system to RED.

that’s my moot 🥹

Fun to think that everything we've gotten used to started off as simple as "yea that looks nice"

becos red means danger

It's a good question

that’s crazy

Blue is the best colour honestly

Woahhh that’s so cool :0

fair enough!