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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on January 28, 2008, 06:30:28 PM
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When people give out website addresses, they say "forward slash" a lot. Is there a "backward slash"?
Etch-a-Sketch was an annoying, frustrating, only-straight-lines pile of cr*p.
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\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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Oh, ha ha.
I hated those things.
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I was just showing you the backward slash, Roger. I can't understand why they didn't give you one on your keyboard.
(The "keyboard's the thing with all the numbers and letters on it, by the way).
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I was just showing you the backward slash, Roger. I can't understand why they didn't give you one on your keyboard.
(The "keyboard's the thing with all the numbers and letters on it, by the way).
That may be were I am going wrong thanks for pointing it out.
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All of my efforts looked like this - but without the tree...
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:yP48cjZrPQ7-6M:http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/thisweekineducation/upload/2007/07/happy_47th_anniversary_etch-a-/etch_a_sketch.jpg)
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I thought you were doing Etch-a-Sketch straight lines!
Seriously, do any websites have "backward slashes"? \\\\\\ OO! Just found it on the keyboard thingie! It's underneath "|", whatever that is. Looks like a big "I". But, once again, do any websites have "backward slashes"?
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The above was directed at The Peepmaster---I decided to ignore the warning about posts having been already made.
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Certain symbols are used for specific functions. The "/" (forward slash), takes you to a folder, (or "directory") which is in the server space you've visited.
So if you go to www.bbc.co.uk you go to the BBC website. If you go to www.bbc.co.uk/sport you go to the BBC website and then to the folder/directory for sport. This can be continued to folders within folders. So inside "sport" there could be a folder for Football, and inside that, a folder for Scottish Football etc etc. In that instance the address would be: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scottishfootball for example
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Um..do any websites have "backward slashes"? DO THEY? DO THEY?
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Um..do any websites have "backward slashes"? DO THEY? DO THEY?
I don't think the backward slash is used as an "instruction", like the "@" and "/" and "." are. I don't think I've ever seen it used in a website address in fact.
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Um..do any websites have "backward slashes"? DO THEY? DO THEY?
See Roger they do answer if you persist. Keep them up to scratch.
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Um..do any websites have "backward slashes"? DO THEY? DO THEY?
I don't think the backward slash is used as an "instruction", like the "@" and "/" and "." are. I don't think I've ever seen it used in a website address in fact.
Thank you.
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By the way, Peeps, I've been speaking to my pal, Malky McCormick, and we're definitely descending on you in a couple of months. We reckon sometime in April. Malky also wants to link up with the widow of a famous Scottish cartoonist---Willie Gall--who, I believe, lives on Bute. Do you know her?
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I don't know her, and sadly I didn't get to meet him. I think he died just over a year ago. I'll make some discreet enquiries.
Mince is the expert on all things to do with the internet by the way, but I think he's still in a huff because Tarquin intimated he would be like a girl playing in goal.
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Malky knows her well, Peeps. We're just trying to tie everything into one visit.
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"Get all the buggers in one go. Damned if I'm making two trips."
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"Get all the buggers in one go. Damned if I'm making two trips."
Hows the bomb going Mince
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Etch-a-Sketch was an annoying, frustrating, only-straight-lines pile of cr*p.
Curved lines were indeed possible, Roger. Tricky, but certainly possible. You had to be able to twiddle both your knobs simultaneously in the required directions and speeds.
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You can?t expect someone of Roger Kettle?s stature to twiddle both of his knobs at once!
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You can?t expect someone of Roger Kettle?s stature to twiddle both of his knobs at once!
:D :D :D :D
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I can't believe that Mince hasn't mentioned solidus by now.
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What's "solidus"?
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It's something for you to Google.