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Re:To www or not www by edmccard on Saturday March 18, 2017 @07:32PM (#13904070)
Or even worse, "h-t-t-p-colon-backslash-backslash..." from people who were used to saying "c-colon-backslash"
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Re:To www or not www by netule on Saturday March 18, 2017 @08:21PM (#13904308)
Or worse yet still "forward slash forward slash."
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Re:To www or not www by michaelmior on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:08PM (#13904511)
How is forward slash worse? At least that's the correct direction.
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Re:To www or not www by netule on Saturday March 18, 2017 @10:52PM (#13904880)
Because it's a made up term. It's just called "slash."
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Re:To www or not www by jclulow on Sunday March 19, 2017 @12:18AM (#13905154)
More like: solidus and reverse solidus!
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Re:To www or not www by michaelmior on Monday March 20, 2017 @01:21PM (#13915935)
At least it unambiguously refers to the correct character / as opposed the incorrect character \
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