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Web Pointer N. A World Wide Web URL. See Also Hotlink, Which Has Slightly Different Connotations.
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web pointer n.
A World Wide Web URL. See also
hotlink, which has slightly different connotations.
Related:
hotlink /hot'link/ n. A hot spot on a World Wide Web page
an area, which, when clicked or selected, chases a URL....
dead link n. [very common] A World-Wide-Web URL that no longer points to the information it was written to reach.
Usually this happens because the document has been moved or deleted....
cobweb site n. A World Wide Web Site that hasn't been updated so long it has figuratively grown cobwebs.
URL /U-R-L/ or /erl/ n. Uniform Resource Locator, an address widget that identifies a document or resource on the World Wide Web.
This entry is here primarily to record the fact that the term is commonly pronounced both /erl/, and /U-R-L/ (the latter predominates in more formal contexts)....
webmaster n. [WWW: from postmaster] The person at a site providing World Wide Web information who is responsible for maintaining the public pages and keeping the Web server running and properly configured.
browser n. A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database.
While this general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more popular and provided a central or default meaning of the word previously lacking in hacker usage....
Quote #371 "And with so many pages sprouting every day, there is a desperate striving for uniqueness, which has resulted in some of the stupidest uses of cutting edge technology ever seen.
-- Ashley Dunn of the NY Times, writing about the World Wide Web....
urf v. [from the `surf' idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp.
if one is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of `surfing in' to a particular resource....
home page n. 1. One's personal billboard on the World Wide Web.
The term `home page' is perhaps a bit misleading because home directories and physical homes in RL are private, but home pages are designed to be very public....