website
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Etymology
Origin of website
1990–95
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Explanation
A collection of online documents or resources is a website. Looking for a great website to help you increase your word knowledge? We recommend Vocabulary.com. Whenever you use the internet, you visit websites, whether they're a single page or a complex assortment of content and pages. Popular websites provide information, discussion forums, videos, shopping, and much more. We visit websites to get the weather report, buy plane tickets, listen to music, check school calendars, and post vacation photos. Website was first used in 1994, not long after the invention of the World Wide Web in 1990.
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Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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The couple also collaborated on another business, Valley View Rodeo, which states on its website that it was built to keep “the Western lifestyle alive in the modern day.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
But the Nauru Soccer Federation now has a real website, where it outlines its plans and also sells a national team shirt to raise funds to grow the game.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
“We’re fairly confident, just looking at the face and all of that,” said Jenny Voisard, media and website manager for the nonprofit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Mr. Jackson’s campaign website portrays him as an man of the people, not a politician: “A fifth-generation logger from Allagash” and a “lifelong fighter for workers’ rights.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Your website says that 95 percent of healthy dogs get adopted. What does that mean?”
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
Another 830 websites in Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and the Dominican Republic were also taken down.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The company makes deals with product suppliers looking for in-program exposure, supplies the on-air talent that does the pitching with the network’s hosts and builds the websites that handle the transactions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Within days, a number of food and lifestyle websites had published euphoric stories about Lamb’s discovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Numerous wedding websites also recommend shopping for gently used formalwear on sites like Poshmark or Depop — which can also be more eco-friendly than buying new clothes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
In the spring of 1996, Quotesmith.com became the first of several websites that enabled a customer to compare, within seconds, the price of term life insurance sold by dozens of different companies.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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