why are url-friendly resource identifiers called "slugs" anyway EDIT: I found my answer, see the thread
supposedly it comes from newspaper editing, where a "slug" was the informal title a work-in-progress piece was referred to with before it had been given a real title, and that the word likely traces back to typesetting
this was something i posted on here because i couldn't think of a way to phrase it where a 2022 search engine would give me results instead of throwing away every part of my query, but i thought of a way to phrase it and immediately got my answer lol
@unascribed for stuff like this I usually go straight to Wikipedia disambiguation pages
@unascribed I think I'd looked it up before because I suspected it was a traditional publishing thing
@noiob i went there but completely ignored the typesetting and newspaper articles listed assuming it'd be explained on the web one but they just don't mention it
maybe i should edit the free encyclopedia anyone can edit