1. 나는 분명히 rsc 글을 쓰던 중이었는데
2. 어쩌다보니 초창기 js 코드는 어떻게 생겼었을까 궁금해져서
3. 검색도 해보고 gpt한테 물어도 보고 했는데 적절한 결과를 얻을 수 없었는데
4. 그러다 아 초기 문서를 찾아보면 되겠구나 하는 생각이 들어 찾아보니
5. JavaScript 1.2 Reference 가 있었다

"10/31/97" ☜ 간지 난다...

wayback machine에 아카이빙된 오리지널 링크도 있었다.

Me: "Why does Windows use \ while everyone else uses /?"

GPT-4: "The reason for the difference lies in the history of the two operating systems and the choices made by their developers.

Microsoft's Windows OS uses backslashes (\) as a path separator due to its legacy of MS-DOS. MS-DOS was heavily influenced by an older operating system named CP/M, which did not have a hierarchical file system, meaning it did not have directories/folders and therefore did not need a directory separator character. When Microsoft introduced directories in MS-DOS 2.0, they needed a character to act as a directory separator, but the forward slash (/) was already being used as the switch character (a kind of option flag) for command-line arguments. Therefore, Microsoft chose the backslash (\) to avoid breaking compatibility with existing software.

On the other side, Unix and Unix-like systems (including Linux and MacOS), use the forward slash (/) as a path separator. The forward slash was chosen as a directory separator in Unix due to its simplicity and ease of use in a command line interface. The forward slash was available because Unix uses the hyphen - for command-line options, not the forward slash.

It's worth noting that although Windows primarily uses backslashes for paths, it does understand forward slashes in most contexts. However, because the backslash is the standard, Windows software often expects paths to be written with backslashes and can behave unexpectedly if they're not."