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/. has annoyed me for years ./ makes much more sense to me
not really. It comes from joking about the pile of strange characters that are part of web URLs:
h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-[x]-dot-org
Where [x] is the website name. Adding "slashdot" there makes an even bigger mouthful.
Yeah ! As suggested before, colondot could use a goatse logo ... Fits well ! ( what wouldn't ?)
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Got it wrong for 15 years (Score:0)
/. has annoyed me for years ./ makes much more sense to me
Re: (Score:4, Informative)
not really. It comes from joking about the pile of strange characters that are part of web URLs:
h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-[x]-dot-org
Where [x] is the website name. Adding "slashdot" there makes an even bigger mouthful.
Re:Got it wrong for 15 years (Score:2)
Yeah ! As suggested before, colondot could use a goatse logo ... Fits well ! ( what wouldn't ?)