• MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This is only tangentially related but I’ve noticed an increase in people saying backslash instead of slash when speaking an internet address aloud. I think many more people struggle with / vs \ than > vs <.

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      2 days ago

      Just to note, backslash or forward slash refers to the side the slash falls to.

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        2 days ago

        I remember it because I’m old and was into computers before the internet. Local drive was backslash "" as a directory separator and online it was slash “/”.