What’s a common “fact” that’s spread around that’s actually not true and pisses you off that too many people believe it?

  • ripcord@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    26 minutes ago

    It easily could have been

    It was a very serious problem.

    Very few dirtbags took advantage of it.

    Obscure language was probably COBOL. Obscure in the sense that it was once immensely popular for business applications, but by the late 90s there were very few new applications written in it, but a huge number of large businesses still ran it.