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Or even worse, "h-t-t-p-colon-backslash-backslash..." from people who were used to saying "c-colon-backslash"

Or worse yet still "forward slash forward slash."

How is forward slash worse? At least that's the correct direction.

Because it's a made up term. It's just called "slash."

More like: solidus and reverse solidus!

At least it unambiguously refers to the correct character / as opposed the incorrect character \