links in the traditional blue

 Why is the sky are links on the web traditionally blue? A really fun look at very early browsers.

Fun ("fun") fact - I've had a personal start page ("kirkzilla", a play on mozilla) on line for, like, decades. At first it used a trick in early Netscape of displaying your saved bookmarks as a page, but later I made it its own thing. But I kept the colors the classic Mozilla even when I had to use CSS to do so...