{"id":4376,"date":"2021-09-28T21:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:05:32","slug":"why-are-links-originally-blue-and-underlined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/warum-sind-links-eigentlich-urspruenglich-blau-und-unterstrichen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are links underlined and blue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to emphasize text on the Internet, don't underline it! Form them in <strong>Bold font<\/strong> or <em>Italics<\/em> or <span style=\"color: #407335;\">different color<\/span> but do not underline them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Underlined text is automatically THE sign that it is a hyperlink, i.e. a redirect to another page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a user clicks on an underlined text and nothing happens at first, he or she will be confused or frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a basic rule, but since when has it actually been like this? Blue underlined links are now so ingrained in the brain that they are only subconsciously perceived as a natural design element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when did hyperlinks actually start to exist? I got to know the first ones at university in 1994 and they were already underlined and blue in color. Links that you had visited had a purple color. And before that? Research then revealed that other people had already thought about this, in other words: there are an astonishing number of people who no longer do anything sensible in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people from Mozilla itself, the creators of Firefox, are right at the forefront. The research into the first blue links is also a nostalgic look back to when the Internet was really still new territory (at least that's how I felt at the time). Here is the article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-mozilla-blog wp-block-embed-the-mozilla-blog\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"uk5fZFom0C\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/deep-dives\/why-are-hyperlinks-blue\/\">Why are hyperlinks blue?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&quot;Why are hyperlinks blue?&quot; - The Mozilla Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/deep-dives\/why-are-hyperlinks-blue\/embed\/#?secret=dcpKTAZc22#?secret=uk5fZFom0C\" data-secret=\"uk5fZFom0C\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TL;DR:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first blue link appeared in the Mosaic browser on April 12, 1993. But keep that to yourself if you want to pass as a socially connected person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/\">Back to the homepage<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201clink\u201d is so ingrained in the brain as a design element on the Internet that it is only perceived subconsciously. But when did they actually start appearing? A journey back into uncharted territory on the Mozilla blog.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[128],"techdoc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bin-im-garten","tag-das-machen-andere"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24898,"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/24898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"techdoc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainetcare.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/techdoc_tag?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}