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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by jsmith99 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:27AM (#23997285)
My GP is not very tech savvy and any time we call the surgery there is a lengthy unskippable message about Covid with the receptionist reading out https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19 down to the last colon.
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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by arprocter on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:31PM (#24000103)
Does it say 'slash' or 'forward slash'? Pet peeve of mine...

Fun to help someone via phone map a Windows share who doesn't know the difference/'what's a backslash?'

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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by heavenlyblue on Thursday July 30, 2020 @06:16PM (#24003451)
If you don’t know, how are you supposed to know whether forward slash has to have it’s upper or lower end forwards?
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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by perl4ever on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:20PM (#24004343)
Or if you do know that, how do you know if "forwards" is to the left or right?
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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by hansthehorse on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:21PM (#24013504)
It's called a virgule if you want to stop the forward slash confusion. Of course nobody will know what you're talking about.
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