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   From: jasonc2@neverumind.org   
      
   VD, STD, STI, HIV and HTML. One of these things is not like the   
   other. Can you guess which one?   
      
   About 1 in 10 people surveyed by coupon website Vouchercloud   
   thought that HTML was a sexually transmitted disease. HyperText   
   Markup Language, aka HTML, is the language used to develop   
   websites. No condom required.   
      
   Vouchercloud conducted the survey because it wanted to know how   
   much its customers knew. They asked 2,392 men and women around   
   18 years of age and older a range of questions having to do with   
   technology. Not everyone got the questions right.   
      
   Here are a couple of other mistakes they made, according to the   
   LA Times:   
      
   • 27 percent identified “gigabyte” as an insect commonly found   
   in South America. A gigabyte is a measurement unit for the   
   storage capacity of an electronic device.   
      
   • 42 percent said they believed a “motherboard” was “the deck of   
   a cruise ship.” A motherboard is usually a circuit board that   
   holds many of the key components of a computer.   
      
   • 23 percent thought an “MP3? was a “Star Wars” robot. It is   
   actually an audio file.   
      
   “It seems that quite a few of us need to brush up on our tech   
   definitions,” a company spokeswoman said in a statement.   
      
   http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/1-in-10-think-html-is-a-   
   sex-disease-140305.htm   
      
       
      
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