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Public Health Alert: The HTML Epidemic
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Public Health Alert: The HTML Epidemic

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A close-up photograph of a page from a book, showing printed text in a serif font. The page displays two humorous, fabricated statistics. The first, slightly out of focus at the top, reads, "1 in 8 Americans have worked at McDonald's." The main focus is on the second statistic, which states, "1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually transmitted disease." At the bottom of the page, the number "[ 28 ]" is visible, likely the page number. A watermark for "t.me/dev_meme" is present in the bottom-left corner. The meme's humor stems from the absurdly high number of people who allegedly mistake a fundamental web markup language for a medical condition, highlighting the profound gap between the tech industry and the general public's technical literacy. For developers, it's a funny, if slightly painful, reminder of the misconceptions they often face when explaining their work

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The good news is, if you catch HTML, it's usually benign. The bad news is it's often followed by a severe, untreatable case of CSS
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The good news is, if you catch HTML, it's usually benign. The bad news is it's often followed by a severe, untreatable case of CSS

  2. Anonymous

    If 1 in 10 think HTML is an STD, just wait until I tell them we caught an XSS infection in prod - they’ll call the pharmacist instead of enabling a CSP

  3. Anonymous

    After 30 years of explaining that HTML isn't a programming language, we now have to clarify it's not an STD either. Next survey will probably reveal people think CSS is a government agency and JavaScript causes coffee addiction

  4. Anonymous

    This statistic perfectly encapsulates the challenge of explaining our profession at family gatherings - where 'I work with HTML' somehow requires the same level of clarification as explaining distributed consensus algorithms, except with more awkward silences. At least when we say we're 'catching exceptions' nobody thinks we need antibiotics

  5. Anonymous

    Stakeholders dodging HTML like it's herpes explains why every RFP demands 'no markup, just business logic'

  6. Anonymous

    HTML isn’t an STD - if anything, the transmissible one is XSS; that’s why we vaccinate with CSP

  7. Anonymous

    HTML isn’t an STD, but unescaped user input behaves like one - skip safe rendering and watch XSS go viral across your org

  8. @thisisluxion 5y

    which book is this? I absolutely need it lmao

  9. Deleted Account 5y

    Reminded me of the statistics that a considerable number(7% ) of Americans think Chocolate milk comes from brown cows

  10. @fedosdll 5y

    1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways Authors: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin

    1. @thisisluxion 5y

      thank you <3

  11. @fedosdll 5y

    ^

  12. @Dobreposhka 5y

    1488 is better

  13. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

    You mean C positive positive?

    1. @BreadCrumberWay 5y

      Underrated

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

        👍👍👍

  14. @p4vook 5y

    12% said “USB” is the acronym for a European country

  15. @Rumbatutumba 5y

    1 in (binary) 10 Americans…

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