{"id":13211,"date":"2014-03-07T07:50:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=13211"},"modified":"2014-03-07T13:10:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T21:10:56","slug":"1-10-americans-believe-html-std","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/1-10-americans-believe-html-std\/","title":{"rendered":"1 out of 10 Americans believe HTML is an STD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/html.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13214\" alt=\"html\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/html-1024x437.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/html-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/html-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/html.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detailed within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/210616846\/VoucherCloud-Study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a study<\/a> commissioned by coupon site Vouchercloud, approximately 11 percent of Americans believe that HTML, a coding language used to design sites on the Web, is a sexually transmitted disease. The study was being used to determine how familiar people are with technical terms and that would influence how the site described these terms to visitors.<\/p>\n<p>However, that wasn&#8217;t the only shocking stat in the bunch. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 20% of Americans believe that MP3, a digital format for music encoding, is a robot from the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; series. (C-3PO anyone?)<\/li>\n<li>Nearly one fifth of Americans believe that Blu-ray, a physical disc format for movies and data storage, is actually a marine animal. \u00a0(Perhaps a Sting-ray?)<\/li>\n<li>More than one fourth of Americans believe that\u00a0gigabyte, a unit of storage on hard drives, is a South American insect.<\/li>\n<li>Over 40% thought the word motherboard, a computer component, is referring to the deck of a cruise ship.<\/li>\n<li>12% believe that USB, a conduit for data transfer, is actually an acronym for a European country.<\/li>\n<li>15% of Americans think that software, a term for computer programs, is actually a type of comfortable clothing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One thing is for sure, if you have a job in the tech industry in America, it&#8217;s probably extremely safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detailed within a study commissioned by coupon site Vouchercloud, approximately 11 percent of Americans believe that HTML, a coding language used to design sites on the Web, is a sexually transmitted disease. The study was being used to determine how familiar people are with technical terms and that would influence how the site described these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[573,100,1027,1025,1026],"class_list":["post-13211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-america","tag-blu-ray","tag-html","tag-study","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13242,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211\/revisions\/13242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}