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10% of Americans think html is an sti
« on: March 04, 2014, 07:36:46 pm »
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79516208/

The title says it all really.

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If you're talking tech with Americans, you may want to avoid using any jargon.

A recent study found that many Americans are lost when it comes to tech-related terms, with 11% saying that they thought HTML — a language that is used to create websites — was a sexually transmitted disease

Okay okay the site that did the survey would probably have a biased sample pool but I thought the topic was amusing.
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Re: 10% of Americans think html is an sti
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2014, 07:42:20 pm »
Wow.  If this is accurate...  ;D
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Re: 10% of Americans think html is an sti
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2014, 12:36:45 am »
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A recent study found that many Americans are lost when it comes to tech-related terms, with 11% saying that they thought HTML — a language that is used to create websites — was a sexually transmitted disease

If they were looking at those old Geocities pages, I wouldn't blame them.
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Re: 10% of Americans think html is an sti
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2014, 06:22:44 pm »
[10% of Americans think HTML is an STI]....and they apparently have very few branches in their family tree. *facepalms*
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Re: 10% of Americans think html is an sti
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2014, 08:04:32 am »
Now now, most people don't spend their time looking things like this up; they have enough on their plates making sure they keep their jobs when their loser, dickhead boss goes on another bath salts-fueled tantrum thru the office.  Even if most in the field don't think of it as a programming language in and of itself (it occupies an odd area, for me), the majority of your average users leave such things to the realm of computer science folks.

After all, when have you (general you, not specific) needed to know even basic HTML in the past year?
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Re: 10% of Americans think html is an sti
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2014, 11:36:46 am »
The validity of the survey has been called into question.
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Re: 10% of Americans think html is an sti
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2014, 03:26:50 pm »
Why can't it be both?
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