{"id":923,"count":2,"description":"The backslash () is a typographical mark (glyph) used mainly in computing. It was first introduced to computers in 1960 by Bob Bemer. Sometimes called a reverse solidus or a slosh, it is the mirror image of the common slash.\nOther common terms for the character include hack, escape (from C\/UNIX), reverse slash, backslant, and backwhack. Also, it is sometimes referred as bash, reverse slant, reversed virgule, or backslat.\nBob Bemer introduced the \"\" character into ASCII, on September 18, 1961, as the result of character frequency studies. In particular the  was introduced so that the ALGOL boolean operators \u2227 (AND) and \u2228 (OR) could be composed in ASCII as \"\/\" and \"\/\" respectively. Both these operators were included in early versions of the C programming language supplied with Unix V6 , Unix V7 and more currently BSD 2.11.\nIn many programming languages such as C and Perl and in Unix scripting languages, the backslash is used to indicate that the character following it should be...","link":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/?tag=backslash","name":"BACKSLASH","slug":"backslash","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&tags=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}