Hackers have always been fond of pedantry:) It's like how I got really annoyed by people calling the whole OS "Linux", so now I typically refer to "NT, Darwin, and GNU/Linux" out of sheer spite. (I'm aware that this is not helpful to anyone, and I do scale it to make sure everyone can still understand each other, but as personal flaws^wquirks go I think I'm doing just fine;])
Oh I’ve run into this too, from trollish standards maximalists in the late 90s on IRC. They thought it was super hilarious to be overbearingly pedantic about W3C specs and such to random people.