At 2009-10-22 11:02 -0500 Richard S. Russell wrote:
Has anybody besides me noticed that people have taken to referring to the "/" character as a backslash
Richard - no, but on UK TV, URLs have been frequently called out using the word "forward-slash". I think that the BBC is now trying to get the correct usage of "slash" implemented (it's usualy correct on live news now) but it hasn't percolated through everywhere yet.
I presume that the word "forward-slash" was invented because some people had been familiar with the backslash in DOS/Windows file paths, and maybe called it "slash" because they didn't know any better. (I'm guessing - I haven't been around enough DOS/Windows people to be sure.) Thus, "forward-slash" was coined to make it clear for those lazy people that URLs don't use the same delimiters as DOS/Windows file paths.
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