Some observations...well, two.

[Roger Kettle]

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.

[The Peepmaster]

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
//////////////////////////////
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

[Roger Kettle]

Oh, ha ha.
I hated those things.

[The Peepmaster]

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).

[peter]

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.

[Diane CBPFC]

All of my efforts looked like this - but without the tree...

[Roger Kettle]

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"?

[Roger Kettle]

The above was directed at The Peepmaster---I decided to ignore the warning about posts having been already made.

[The Peepmaster]

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

[Roger Kettle]

Um..do any websites have "backward slashes"? DO THEY? DO THEY?

[The Peepmaster]

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.

[peter]

Um..do any websites have "backward slashes"? DO THEY? DO THEY?

See Roger they do answer if you persist. Keep them up to scratch.

[Roger Kettle]

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.

[Roger Kettle]

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?

[The Peepmaster]

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.