Timeline for What is the name for these keys on a computer keyboard?
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| Mar 16, 2016 at 21:45 | history | edited | apsillers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2016 at 15:02 | comment | added | Monty Harder | Yes, there is a great deal of confusion with backslash. I literally yelled at the TV when Pauley Perrette (who plays the tech nerd on NCIS) told viewers to go to a website at "CBS dot com backslash..." Since viewers assume she actually knows what she's talking about, it just perpetuates a basic error: People believe that "slash" is the informal name, and "backslash" is the full, formal name. Interestingly, they don't seem to be able to give a name for "\". There are similar problems with (semi)colon. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 14:54 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | I like the way you explained that last one. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 13:26 | comment | added | ColleenV | If you look at the scan code tables in the keyboard standards, the keys are referred to as their symbol pairs as you've written, so I think that's probably the best choice. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 13:19 | history | answered | apsillers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |