New study reveals that a lot of Americans have no idea about technology

HTML is an STD and Blu-ray is a sea animal... at least that’s what many Americans will tell you. You won’t believe what they think some tech terms mean.

HTML actually looks like this.

MAYBE think twice the next time you try to talk tech to Americans.

A study has found that one in five think that a Blu-ray is a sea animal and one in 10 think the coding language to build websites, HTML, is a type of sexually transmitted infection.

The study was conducted by Vouchercloud.net, an American coupons website looking to see how well its users know their tech jargon.

A spokeswoman for the company told the LA Times: “It seems that quite a few of us need to brush up on our tech definitions.”

On top of the hilarity of the HTML and Blu-ray confusions, there were a few more humorous findings.

— Nearly half thought that a “motherboard” was “the deck of a cruise ship”, not the main circuit board of a computer.

— A quarter thought that the measurement unit “gigabyte” was an insect commonly found in South America.

— Nearly a quarter believed that the audio format “MP3” was a Star Wars robot.

— 15 per cent thought that a computer program, or “software” was what you call comfortable clothing.

— 12 per cent answered that “USB” is an acronym for a European country — not a connection port on your computer.

Ironically, 61 per cent of those surveyed believed that having a good tech knowledge was extremely important.

Facepalm.

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