html is pronounced "hot tamale"

[phlash@mastodon.me.uk]

@renardboy I always liked HoT MetaL

[kdawson@tldr.nettime.org]

@renardboy

Here's a post from 1998 on how to pronounce http and www. Note that :// is pronounced "lizard lips."

(This issue of TBTF also includes the first review of Google's search engine in English.)

https://www.tbtf.com/archive/1998-05-11.html#s12

[jaz@toot.wales]

@renardboy the year was 1998 and I owned a cybercafe and a Web design/hosting business.

Got a phone call one day from someone with an unfamiliar accent who asked if we knew "huttamull".

"Huttamull?"

"Yes, do you know "huttamull?"

Pause.

Beat.

Ahhhhhh.

[jcarr@techhub.social]

@renardboy Reminds me of a manager I had years ago who convinced a new hire that people "in the know" pronounced TCP/IP as "tc-pip".

[colinstu@birdbutt.com]

@renardboy @spiosra there was a kid growing up w/that insisted it was 'hotmail'

[aanee@mastodon.online]

@renardboy Wow, I had forgotten that song.

[steampunk_prof@mastodon.social]

@renardboy SQL - Squirrel

[cyberpunk909@mefi.social]

@renardboy no, it's pronounced 'hate mail'

[aerofreak@hessen.social]

@jaz
Sounds like he was German.

@renardboy

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@Steampunk_Prof Squeal

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@colinstu @spiosra I can definitely understand the reasoning behind that from a kid's perspective.

[colinstu@birdbutt.com]

@renardboy @spiosra yeah I understood the mixup. the insistence was the funny/annoying part.

I picked my battle and didn't fight that one.

[isaackuo@spacey.space]

@renardboy "That sounds about right" - a DBA, probably

[paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org]

@renardboy

That is absolutely correct.

[fwaggle@moodoo.org]

@rachel @renardboy @robin My personal preference is "wikkawikkawikka" like a record scratch, because then sites like Wikipedia become really funny to spell out the address to