It’s 2015 and we still have no idea why URL slugs are called that.
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@gln Best I could find ispic.twitter.com/MDvbR2vGe6
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@gln@_Jordan Always assumed it’s a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(publishing) … /cc@majelbstoat1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mwichary@gln@majelbstoat Sure, but where did that word come from?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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@_Jordan @gln @majelbstoat From there to linotype (metal), from there to newspapers (short line), from there to URLs.
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