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1 in 10 Americans think HTML is an STD, study finds
Los Angeles Times ^ | March 4, 2014, 10:40 a.m. | Salvador Rodriguez

Posted on 03/04/2014 2:09:35 PM PST by Olog-hai

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. […]

Besides HTML, there were some other amusing findings:


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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: stupidpeople
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To: al baby
What is a beeber ?
A very high-tech device used by FreeRepublic moderators. Can be set to "stune":


...or in severe cases, to "ZOT":


And please, as with all powerful devices:


81 posted on 03/04/2014 4:50:47 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: COBOL2Java; al baby

In his defense, al baby did NOT claim to have seen a beeber. He said he saw a beeber-like device. It could have been anything, a detonator, a poison pistol, a (shudder) game controller...


82 posted on 03/04/2014 4:53:49 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Darksheare

Hopefully........not disappointing, snicker.


83 posted on 03/04/2014 4:56:53 PM PST by potlatch ("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
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To: Billthedrill
In his defense, al baby did NOT claim to have seen a beeber. He said he saw a beeber-like device. It could have been anything, a detonator, a poison pistol, a (shudder) game controller...

Ah, understood. Well, they're very often confused for one another.

84 posted on 03/04/2014 4:57:18 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Darksheare

I....”stomped”.....you???

Sir, I protest!


85 posted on 03/04/2014 4:57:51 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Cyber Liberty

Well, I did really screw the thread up with italics at the time.
And it was a rather serious thread.
And I was really really new.
*chuckle*
My HTML was exceedingly weak.
[Worse now with my typos.]
I needed the *stompy stompy* “This is how you do it instead” at the time.

Sadly, since the forum no longer requires hand html, many forum newbs no longer get that mentoring from older handles.

No, they usually cop an attitude about it.
:-/


86 posted on 03/04/2014 5:05:59 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: cynwoody
Most of the alternates were a bit less risque at my grade school. Less School Means Fun Time etc.
87 posted on 03/04/2014 5:23:41 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Plus.. I was a nooooooob.
And it was SCAAAAARY!

*chuckle*

Think we’ll ever run across anyone who will be willing to learn from either of us in the future?
The younger crowds out there are kinda different these days.

Maybe they need a visit of FredHelp instead?


88 posted on 03/04/2014 5:24:30 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Everyone has a tale of woe... about a week after I got the nerve to sign up (lurked since ‘98) I got sideways with A+Bert when he was *ahem* “under the weather” and he tore me a new one.


89 posted on 03/04/2014 5:32:04 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Cyber Liberty

Cyber ended up teaching me html and other forum stuff afterwards.
It turned out better than I at the time thought.

Oddly, I never had A+Bert drop a bus on me.
Dunno why.
Maybe I didn’t bother him much?


90 posted on 03/04/2014 5:33:50 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Olog-hai

LOL thank you!!


91 posted on 03/04/2014 5:35:02 PM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: Darksheare
Think we’ll ever run across anyone who will be willing to learn from either of us in the future?

No. And we should thank G_d for that.

92 posted on 03/04/2014 8:06:36 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Cyber Liberty

LOL!
“We trained him wrong because we thought it would be funny.”


93 posted on 03/05/2014 5:36:56 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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