# Collective term for Web things

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collective-term-for-web-things/305808>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 27, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collective-term-for-web-things/305808 "2005-05-27T20:31:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collective-term-for-web-things/305808/21 "2005-05-30T02:30:58Z")

</div>

Let’s crank the corporate-speak up a notch and call it “web assets”.

As in: “The synergies between our various web assets empower our value proposition.”

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collective-term-for-web-things/305808/22 "2005-05-30T02:50:11Z")

</div>

> [@CaveMike](#):
>
> Let’s crank the corporate-speak up a notch and call it “web assets”.
> 
> As in: “The synergies between our various web assets empower our value proposition.”

Which would obviously require a paradigm shift towards winning practices. 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collective-term-for-web-things/305808/23 "2005-05-30T04:27:20Z")

</div>

> [@DMC](#):
>
> Which would obviously require a paradigm shift towards winning practices. 🙂

And the brainiacs that literally impugn our integrity will be admonished by our cunning verbosity.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collective-term-for-web-things/305808/24 "2005-05-30T04:58:59Z")

</div>

AAACCKKKKK!! Stop, my brain is bleeding! I’m allergic to corp-speak!

If I use the term website, then I’m back to having to put “Web site(s) and/or Web page(s)” everywhere, which is exactly what I’m trying to avoid. Don’t blame me, it wasn’t my idea.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collective-term-for-web-things/305808.md?page=1)