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[Antony Barry]

On 30/05/2007, at 10:59 PM, Adam Todd wrote:

> Thinking back now, I'd still have trouble explaining what a web  
> site it.   The "term' itself isn't exactly a description of what  
> the function is at all.

I think of it as


1. All pages hosted at a particular host name regardless of whether  
the ip address is shared by multiple host names or whether the host  
name is spread over multiple ip addresses

or

2. All pages developed coherently (whatever that means) regardless of  
host name or ip address. eg PictureAustralia <http:// 
www.pictureaustralia.org/> which is spread over multiple institutions  
if you think that the pointers to the pages in the index at NLA are  
useless without the supporting databases scattered round the country.

or

3. "Web site" is a pretty useless concept. There are just pages  
linked in various ways which may be static or dynamic and there may  
be aggregates which group sensibly. A bit like the body where we talk  
of organs even though everything is made of cells and the boundaries  
of an organ disappear if you look to closely.


Tony

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