Oh My Gosh.

 Come on everyone! You hear it all the time. SLASH. "Yeah, just go to somethingoranother.com   SLASH  thingamajiggy. for a new whatjamacallit.
 So just what is this slash thing after all? And why does it matter? That is a question I am going to answer. So sit back and hold on to your laptops, and we shall go to what it all means. And it really matters, at least to me to clarify it to the thousands of people I talked to that did not know.

Here it is;
 This is called a back slash  \ .
 This is called a forward slash   /  .
As can be seen, the back slash leans to the left. The forward slash leans to the right.
The back slash is normally used on the local machine (computer) to access the hard disk drive (hdd).
The forward slash is used to access the Internet or a network.

Ok. I feel better now.