Why are anchor tags blue?

Is there a reason blue was chosen for anchor tags, or was purple chosen for visited links? Maybe this is due to the fact that for people with disabilities it becomes easier?

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Why are the links blue?

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Internet, is credited with creating blue hyperlinks, a solution that, in his opinion, reached at random. But although accessibility might not have been for Sir Tims at the time, the color choice was happy, according to Joe Clark:

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