11% of Americans think HTML is an STD. HyperText Markup Language is indeed a Serially Transmitted Descriptor (TCP/IP, 802.11, USB, etc., which are very commonly used to transmit HTML formatted data, are all serial protocols). However, it is not a Sexually Transmitted Disease, unless you count porn.
77% of respondents could not identify what SEO means. I couldn't either, although I've done the work myself a little and I know a number people who are in the business. It's pretty much only a term for people who are actually in the "Search Engine Optimization" business. It's transparent for most of us.
27% thought that gigabyte was a insect found in South America. There are a number of insects in South America that might do quite a few bites, and a few million of them together certainly will do a Billion...probably not of one critter, which would probably die with bite numbers in the thousands of so... A gigabyte is a billion bytes of some type of storage or bandwidth. A byte is 8 bits, and a billion in this case is usually 2^30: 1,073,741,824 bytes.
42% thought Motherboard was the deck of a cruise ship. That's plausible to me. There's a king post, a queen plank, a king-plank (part of the deck) various knees and ribs, even a gang-plank. Motherboard is really only a desktop personal computer term. Older computers had a backplane, which did something similar, and smaller computers, like phones and tablets, just have the one board. Calling it a motherboard is really not correct unless important components can be plugged in, although we understand what you mean.
23% thought MP3 was a Star Wars robot. Sounds plausible to me. With as many robots as there were in those movies, one of them with that name is likely. But it's more likely the audio format the robots were using to make noises...
18% thought BlueRay was a type of manta ray. It is! It is also an optical disc format. It uses blue lasers because that allows higher data capacity than less expensive red lasers.
15% thought "Software" was a type of clothing. And so it is. Salesmen often refer to clothing generically as "Soft goods", and there are several brands that call themselves "Softwear", including tshirts, rubber jewelry, and more.
12% thought "USB" was a European country. Close. UBS originally stood for Union Banque de Suisse, the union bank of Switzerland, a merger of several of the largest Swiss banks. Its banks are pretty much the reason Switzerland has survived for as long, as it has survived two world wars fought right next to its borders, the acquisitiveness of the Habsburgs, of Bismark, and more. UBL is one of the abbreviations used for Osama Bin Laden. USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. (I'm a subscriber to the theory that when the Knights Templar were banned and slaughtered on and after Friday the 13th of October 1307, mostly so that the Pope and the King of France could steal their money, many of the survivors escaped into the wild mountains between France, Italy and Germany and created their own country, become bankers for the rest of Europe, and did their best to keep their past a secret.)
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