On: Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

[jiveturkey]

better question: why does my Ford navigation use backslash as the alternate street name separator? unbelievably irksome to me.

[firethief → jiveturkey]

Because Windows has made \ so common that many normies now consider it the forward slash. In the encounters with them I fail to evade, I often hear them referring to the slashes in URLs as "backslash". Shudder.

[octorian → firethief]

I thought normies considered \ to be the "computer slash". (Which basically explains all the verbal misuse)