Anonymous A started this discussion 10 years ago#54,607
A web page (US spelling webpage or Web page) is a document that is suitable for the World Wide Web and web browsers. A web browser displays a web page on a monitor or mobile device. The web page is what displays, but the term also refers to a computer file, usually written in HTML or comparable markup language. Web browsers coordinate the various web resource elements for the written web page, such as style sheets, scripts, and images, to present the web page.
Typical web pages provide hypertext that includes a navigation bar or a sidebar menu to other web pages via hyperlinks, often referred to as links.
On a network, a web browser can retrieve a web page from a remote web server. On a higher level, the web server may restrict access to only a private network such as a corporate intranet or it provides access to the World Wide Web. On a lower level, the web browser uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to make such requests. click here
Metæ joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 3 minutes later[^][v]#709,796
I once worked with someone whom thought HTML was an abbreviation for "Hotmail".
Pvt. Sophie Antimatriarkaler joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 59 seconds later, 4 minutes after the original post[^][v]#709,797
That's nice and everything, but I can tell you that unless you're really, really good, the concept of the personal webpage is by and large obsolete, though doable. Even then, those who are not so good, even when hosting themselves, now tend to use CMS packages, micro-CMS packages like the Wordpress clones, or blogging packages like Wordpress which have come to the stage of being CMS like.
Honestly, I've become used to just setting up Wordpresses. I'm in no desperate effort to prove any aspect of my now mostly-atrophied design prowess. It was fun when I was younger, though.
Metæ replied with this 10 years ago, 3 minutes later, 8 minutes after the original post[^][v]#709,799
@previous (Pvt. Sophie Antimatriarkaler)
I do miss personal web pages. The web feels so much more homogeneous now with everyone just using a few different templates and platforms.
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Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 3 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^][v]#709,801
@709,796 (Metæ)
I often thought of the words "hate mail"
Hey to make a web page all you got to do is make a text file and change the file extension from txt to html, bam fuckin web page
Pvt. Sophie Antimatriarkaler replied with this 10 years ago, 6 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^][v]#709,807
@previous (Sheila LaBoof)
Not an empty one though. The basic skeletal structure of header tags, body tags, and some eclectic array of formatting tags to the whim of the designer, is required for the browser to be able to transliterate the code into something scrutable.
@709,799 (Metæ)
Web 1.0 was fucking awful at times, but pre-Web 2.0, like, Web-1.5-1.9 so early Youtube and so on, was probably the peak of the internet in terms of my amasement and wonder by the potential for its possibility.
That's all dashed now. I feel suffocated by it, for this and consequential reasons.
Metæ replied with this 10 years ago, 18 minutes later, 36 minutes after the original post[^][v]#709,817
@previous (Pvt. Sophie Antimatriarkaler)
Relax, just let Zuckerberg and Dorsey make all your choices. Just sit back and click the sponsored content.
@709,799 (Metæ)
You can write some pretty good hate mail in HTML.