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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I get it, I get it, I’m old. Sheesh…

[–] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. I wonder if youngsters of this day get this at all.

Good joke none the less. 😀

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Why wouldn't they? Links did not stop turning purple, this still happens very often.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago

Well, lots of webpages apply CSS, either disabling the history coloring entirely or at least choosing different colors. It does still happen with blue and purple, but it's not nearly as obvious anymore that these specific two colors refer to that.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 days ago

Every wiki ever

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Actually, now that I think about it, accessed links in Google Sheets only change to a different color of blue.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Let the old boomers have their fun.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

where? i don't remember the last time I've seen a website without custom styling that overrides this.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The results of any search engine.

Reddit.

Lemmy.

This really is not a rare thing. At all.