Damnit. Dipped my stick in something I shouldn't have - now I have HTML.

[Thebobo]

Bfd idgas

 

[BoomerD]

bfd idgas

dilligaf

 

[Ken g6]

Hm, this ray is round and blue, in places:

 

[mikegg]

surprised that 23% know what SEO stands for

Me too.

I'm an SEO manager at my company.

Those web developers who said they don't know what SEO is... that's why I have a job.😀

 

[andylawcc]

10 years in ATOT i never remotely seen/heard SEO.

 

[Ns1]

ITT:

people who have never tried to make money on the internet

 

[Rakehellion]

In other news, the general population still has no idea what the fuck most tech acronyms mean.

Why should they? That's like expecting the nerds here to know most medical terms.

 

[ch33zw1z]

 

[darkxshade]

HTML is nothing, I have PHP 🙁

 

[Red Squirrel]

There is also a STD called namespace. It's found in lot of C++ programs.

 

[akahoovy]

27% identified "gigabyte" as an insect commonly found in South America. A gigabyte is a measurement unit for the storage capacity of an electronic device.

People who don't know how much space their smart phone has.

23% thought an "MP3" was a "Star Wars" robot. It is actually an audio file.

Old people.

18% identified "Blu-ray" as a marine animal. It is a disc format typically used to store high-definition videos.

Old people.

15% said they believed "software" is comfortable clothing. Software is a general term for computer programs.

Women.

12% said "USB" is the acronym for a European country. In fact, USB is a type of connector.

People who never went to college or had to move documents around to print somewhere else. Or dumbasses.

 

[lozina]

You never heard of the United States of Britain?

I think I hear them chanting at the Olympics sometimes: "USB! USB! USB!"

 

[Chapbass]

Thank god theres people in this thread besides me that don't know what SEO is. That said, I don't do any sort of programming, much less anything that gets put on the real life internet, so...

 

[alkemyst]

good luck with the chemical makeups of what they consume everyday.

 

[slugg]

My sister used to think that HTML = HoTMaiL and SHTML = SHiTMaiL.

 

[Soundmanred]

Do a survey about the following words/phrases and see the exact same thing happen:

"Catalytic converter"
"Alternator"
"Voice coil"
"Capacitor"
"Deglaze"
"Fricassee"
"Ballast"
"Balustrade"

This isn't about the ignorance of the general public about "computer stuff", this is people not knowing words/phrases related to something they have no deeper interest in than simple usage.

 

[Red Squirrel]

ITT: Lot of people don't know what SEO is or stands for. Quite surprising for a tech forum.

 

[HeXen]

Do a survey about the following words/phrases and see the exact same thing happen:

"Catalytic converter"
"Alternator"
"Voice coil"
"Capacitor"
"Deglaze"
"Fricassee"
"Ballast"
"Balustrade"

This isn't about the ignorance of the general public about "computer stuff", this is people not knowing words/phrases related to something they have no deeper interest in than simple usage.

This exactly. It is a very foolish notion to expect otherwise. Same goes for anything.