<p>Various links that appear in the top bar, such as: user profile link (or login), review, help-center, inbox, reputation change indicator, search box, etc.</p>

<p>In the <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/207420/the-new-top-bar-is-out-on-meta-consider-it-a-beta" title="doing it live since then">Year of 2013, on the precipice of December 4</a>, a <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/12/a-new-top-bar-for-stack-exchange/" title="A Bigger, Blacker Bar">newly designed top bar swept the Stack Exchange network</a>. It's black and uniform across all sites.</p>

<p><sub> Reference: imported excerpt and adapted wiki from the main <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/top-bar/info">Meta Stack Exchange</a> site.</sub></p>
