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They are called forward slashes or just slashes for short.

You can recognize that this is true when you realize that before computer keyboards, typewriters and typography in general had no such thing as the "backslash". (At least, not commonly.) The only "slash" was the "forward slash".

(Think and-slash-or for and/or. When have you ever seen the backslash, "\", in literature? And have you ever noticed that the question mark/forward slash key practically always sits in the same location on all QWERTY keyboards, while the backslash is often in different locations on different QWERTY keyboards? It's not even always paired with the vertical bar.)

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