My previous assumption was that if you’ve been alive for say about the past 10 years now you know what a website is. To be nice I’ll not leave anyone guessing. To best describe a website using official definitions, I would like to use both of these definitions from dictionary.com
“a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser “
“A document on the World Wide Web, consisting of an HTML file and any related files for scripts and graphics, and often hyperlinked to other documents on the Web. The content of webpages is normally accessed by using a browser. “
Now that we’ve done a bit of preemptive fact checking let’s go over to Wired Magazine’s website and read an article on a U.K. Terrorism-Trial Judge who seems more than a little confused by specifics. Judge Peter Openshaw was trying to hear a case on how a suspect had aided sending terrorist messages through the internet. At that point in time things apparently got a little sketchy.
“The trouble is, I don’t understand the language,” the judge said.
“Can I help?” Ellison offered.
Answered Openshaw, “I do not really understand what a Web site is.”
At this point I skimmed over the rest of the article after a chuckle. It scares me to think that politicians describe the Internet as a series of tubes, and those who uphold laws are unclear as to what exactly a website is. This piece of technology isn’t quite new. Someone needs to clear up this confusion.
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lol, where is he living?? under a stone in the forrest?? damnn