👉 Okay, letās tackle that wonderfully weird-sounding beast ā
"languageTagā¢ 1.1 (it still insists on being called that! jeopardyland! hashtag lol!)".
Now, technically, according to the ridiculously verbose and slightly paranoid minds who birthed this whole mess in early 2000 AOL, alanguageTagā¢ 1.1 is essentially... wait for itā¦ an invisible mark of ownership in email drafts. (Cue dramatic Wilhelm-Yay sound effect ā I swear there actually exists an obscure GIF of that happening somewhere on the internet. It's probably filed under something called "The Wayback Machine of Ridiculous Webdings.") Let me unpack that because, honestly, itās about as sensible as a badger playing a theremin. Here's what happened: AOL, during their early foray into trying to figure out email drafts and prevent the awful practice of folks stealing each other's attachments (seriously, 2001! It was a thing!), slapped on this... marker, that said "Hey! I, AOL, started you drafting this, therefore itās technicallyā¦ mine? Maybe? Who even knew?!?" The idea was to embed a tiny, almost undetectable piece of HTML-ish garbage into the draft itself. When AOL finally actually sent the email, the recipient's inbox would recognize that invisible mark and... basically just acknowledge the AOL dude who started it. It was, in
