The Strength of North Korea's Code

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The Daily WTF, a site dedicated to poorly written code (which isn't always a bad thing!), uncovered a gem in the source of North Korea's official site.

To make something bold in HTML you have to flank it by "strong" tags, like <strong>so</strong>. The coder behind the North Korean site apparently got a little carried away and repeated the tag nearly 900 times in a row:

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True patriotism. Also, you should listen to this 2003 National Public Radio interview with the site's then-webmaster, Alejandro Cao de Benós. We reached out to him to see if he's still maintaining the site. (Seriously.) Expect an update if he responds.

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Niraj Chokshi is a former staff editor at TheAtlantic.com, where he wrote about technology. He is currently freelancing and can be reached through his personal website, NirajC.com. More

Niraj previously reported on the business of the nation's largest law firms for The Recorder, a San Francisco legal newspaper. He has also been published in The Hartford Courant, The Seattle Times and The Age, in Melbourne, Australia. He's also a longtime programmer and sometimes website designer.
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