# "Web Site" or "Website"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-or-website/20489>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 25, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-or-website/20489 "2000-05-25T03:57:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-or-website/20489/21 "2000-05-28T23:59:27Z")

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**handy** , i used the Webster site because that is the dictionary that you used to suggest that homepage is a word.

i only used it to show that your reasoning was incorrect.

regarding your new ‘proof’ that **homepage** is indeed a word: [www.onelook.com](http://www.onelook.com) has ‘words’ such as **html** and **icq** , which are clearly **not** english words.

i assume you see why [www.onelook.com](http://www.onelook.com) is not a valid resource when discussing english words.

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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-or-website/20489/22 "2000-05-29T21:18:14Z")

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> A network and a network protocol.  
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So, I’m using the Internet network, then, eh? So then, once I establish which network I’m on (as if any reader didn’t already know), I can just talk about the network I’m on. Thus I can write:

_When I was on the Internet last night, I noticed that the network was a bit slow. All the other network users thought so, too._

I don’t know, seems like needless capitalization to me. I was saying as much while driving on _the_ Interroads the other day and traffic on the road was slow.

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And I’m using the World Wide Web network protocol? Is that the protocol that supplanted _the_ File Transfer Protocol protocol?

Peace.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-or-website/20489/23 "2000-05-29T22:40:44Z")

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Kilgore, ‘homepage’ only has one meaning to me, ‘home page’ has more…

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