{"id":798,"date":"2012-04-26T07:43:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2012-04-20T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:51:18","slug":"unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/unintended-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"unintended consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In software engineering, things that you think are a joke sometimes take on a life of their own. \u00a0To wit: <a title=\"The Humble Origins of the HTML Blink Tag\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5903827\/the-humble-origins-of-the-html-blink-tag\">the humble origins of the blink tag<\/a>. \u00a0A bunch of Netscape engineers got together for beers in Mountain View one night, where one lamented that none of the HTML extensions would work with Lynx.<\/p>\n<p>There were two unintended consequences to this beer-fueled conversation:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The blink tag was coded up that very night<\/li>\n<li>The engineer who made the lamentation met the woman who ultimately became his wife.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You never know what will come out of happy hour conversations. \u00a0They often have unintended consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In software engineering, things that you think are a joke sometimes take on a life of their own. \u00a0To wit: the humble origins of the blink tag. \u00a0A bunch of Netscape engineers got together for beers in Mountain View one night, where one lamented that none of the HTML extensions would work with Lynx. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/unintended-consequences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">unintended consequences<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}