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It's a standard character, it needs a name, the standard name for "\" is backslash. I'm okay with that. The normal and widespread name for "/" is "slash", and I'm fine with that too.

Yes, there are people who get things wrong on the internet. Just gently correct them and move on. I don't think trying to change to other terms like solidus and reverse solidis are going to make it any better.

And I like :// being in URLs. It makes them incredibly easy to disambiguate them from anything else.

I've been calling it a backslash since the '70's. Get off my lawn, kid.

In my neck of the woods it was slash and slosh.

What would you prefer then?

They simply don't belong in web addresses.

Antivirgule, of course.

People say backslash in web addresses when they mean a plain old slash.

I reread your post and now I understand what you were trying to say.