Slash = Front Slash

Horrible definition found: A good way to remember the difference between a backslash and a forward slash is that a backslash leans backwards ( \ ), while a forward slash leans forward ( / ).  pc.net helpcenter

What? What leans backward? 

Here is a pipe   |

Here is the pipe leaning backwards like a person (which I am assuming is the best representation because of commonality)   /     ... this is a slash or forward slash. So this is a backwards definition.