29
Jul 2010

Doubleplusstrong

First to explain the title of this pose, it is written in Newspeak - the language invented by George Orwell for his book 1984. The translation of doubleplusstrong into English is roughly equivalent to 'really, incredibly, mindbogglingly strong'.

As it turns out, the North Korean government has a keen appreciation for Newspeak and a lousy appreciation for HTML.

Witness the some of the code driving their national website at http://www.korea-dpr.com/:

<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>24.07.2010 - <a href="http://www.korea-dpr.com/ocn"><span class="style34">OCN Articles</span></a> added !<br><br></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></p>

Browsers can understand <strong>, which they interpret to mean bold. The only problem is that there is no such thing as double bold.

Full disclosure: I trimmed a couple hundred <strong>'s out so this would fit in a blog post.

Comments

Haha! How did you even find

Haha! How did you even find this?

My Confession

I must confess that this was referenced elsewhere, which is were I cam across it.

I have to wonder what the original discoverer was thinking when they found it. Do some people make a hobby of reviewing the code of some of the least visited sites on the Internet?

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