The iconic image that people love to interpret in different ways is a representation of the power and flexibility of CSS. Jim Neilsen reacts to a presentation by Hidde de Vries, emphasizing the endless options that CSS offers. You can make content overflow visibly, lop off overflowing content, stretch, ellipsis, wrap or not wrap, and scale type to fit. Mandy Michael suggests the simple solution of making the box bigger to fit the text, questioning the need for explicit width and height. The original creator of the image, Steve Frank of Panic, confesses that it stemmed from frustration with CSS back in 2009. Despite its origin, the image has become an iconic representation of CSS.
https://css-tricks.com/css-is-in-fact-awesome/