Original sentence: Non-technical people often sloppily and incorrectly refer to a slash as a "backslash", for instance when reading URLs out loud
Edited sentence: Also note that the "forward slash" does not exist.It was a term coined by Microsoft to cover up their mistake in creating DOS (that is, using / for options and then realizing they had to invent \ for paths).Non-technical people often sloppily and incorrectly refer to a slash as a "backslash", for instance when reading URLs out loud, which can be infuriating to those who understand that the two characters are different.The correct term for a / is "slash"