the.com/website
a storefront that never sleeps, judges you in milliseconds, and remembers everything you clicked.
means A collection of related pages, text, images, and links accessible over the internet under a single domain.
from A literal mash-up of two parts: 'web,' short for the World Wide Web (the tangled, threaded structure of linked documents Tim Berners-Lee dreamed up around 1989, named for its spider-web sprawl), and 'site,' from Latin 'situs' meaning 'position' or 'a place where something stands' — the same root behind 'situate.' So a website is, quite plainly, 'a place on the web,' a digital plot of land staked out among the threads.
- first one
- Tim Berners-Lee built it in 1991, still online
- load speed
- Half of visitors flee after three seconds
- total count
- Over a billion exist, most utterly abandoned
- hidden file
- robots.txt politely begs crawlers to behave
for instance
wikipedia — free online encyclopedia with over 6 million articles in english, founded 2001