How did the term “slug” come about (as in the URLs)?

Question

I made several attempts by Google to figure out the origin of the word "slug" used in URLs. However, I can not find any information about this. Does anyone know where this term came from?

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(web_publishing)

Answer 1

This is what I heard (from a fairly reliable source):

Tears are slow-moving gastropods. When you call someone slime, you call them lazy - this is not a compliment. When you use human-readable terms in a URL instead of a database number or some other form, this is usually for convenience only; you can call the URLs almost whatever you want, and thus call them English words mainly for readability. It supposedly arose when programmers became too “lazy” to find the right code or identifier for a website and started calling them words. These "lazy URLs" have become bullets.

Again, I'm not sure if this is 100% correct, but this is what I heard!

Hope this helps!

n.a.