Public service announcement: Any time you are tempted to say "backslash," say "slash" instead. The only exceptions are (1) Windows file system paths, (2) even more obscure uses that only programmers have to think about.

@binarybits youtu.be/qkNa5xzOe5U?si…

@john_malone It doesn't seem like "never say backslash" should be a hard rule to remember. But I just heard an ad on a mainstream podcast that used backslash in a URL.

@binarybits Was backslash mentioned a bunch in early internet tutorial videos and advertisements?

@binarybits Or rather “forward slash”

@john_malone My guess is that people started getting confused in the 1980s, when DOS/Windows was the most popular computing platform and it really was an open question whether it made sense to use a slash or a backslash.

@john_malone And ever since then a critical mass of normies have been confused enough to do it wrong some of the time, which then perpetuates the confusion.