the.com/webpage
A single document pretending the internet isn't actually millions of servers arguing.
means A single viewable page of content on the World Wide Web, addressed by its own URL and displayed by a browser.
from Straightforward compound coinage from 'web' — the World Wide Web, the hypertext system devised in 1989–91 — plus 'page,' borrowed from print, where a 'page' meant one leaf of a document. As the Web grew in the early 1990s, 'webpage' (sometimes 'web page') emerged naturally to name a single HTML document, distinguishing it from a whole 'website,' which is a collection of such pages.
- not website
- one page; a website is the whole book
- first ever
- made by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991
- true identity
- just text with formatting instructions, dressed up
- average weight
- heavier in kilobytes than early entire websites