What is a "website"?

What is a "website"?

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A website is a publication that exists in electronic space. It's hosted on a server, and a server is just a fancy name for a computer that is probably faster, more powerful and capable of doing more things at the same time than just what we would normally call a computer. The server hosts this web document or website, and that web document can be accessed and read by one or many computers at the same time. A website is a document that's published initially in something called HTML---Hyper Text Market Language, one of the early inventions of the internet. This allows publication of the information to be standardized on the server and still be read by many different computers that may not at all be the same. But even so, they can read that same information the same way.