slug comes from newspaper publishing afaik and got adopted by web tools from there.
cheers Bill James M Snell wrote:
I'm not enamored with the name "Slug" either, but quite a few blogging packages seem to use that term to refer to the final URI path segment of blog posts so unless someone has a better suggestion :-) - James Alex Milowski wrote:[snip] I am somewhat baffled at the origin of the header name 'Slug' but the name doesn't bother me. --Alex Milowski
