On: Zig's Lovely Syntax

[quesera]

I think in the 90's it was just people repeating a pattern they learned from Windows/DOS.

It used to grate on my nerves to hear people say, e.g. "H T T P colon backslash backslash yahoo dot com".

But I think they always typed forward slash, like they knew the correct slash to use based on the context, but somehow always spoke it in DOSish.