"Forward slash" is a goofy name anyway. There are: - "slash": the character you use in English and when typing fractions; and - "backslash": the Microsoft-sl

"Forward slash" is a goofy name anyway. There are: - "slash": the character you use in English and when typing fractions; and - "backslash": the Microsoft-slash: backwards, like everything else they do. Another way to remember is that (at least on US keyboards) the slash is always in the same place (on the same key as the question mark). The backslash, being the oddity that it is, is in different places, depending on the keyboard vendor.