Retronym: computer website

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jul 20 09:15:37 UTC 2013


The natural retronym companion to the mobile website is the immobile website.
Apologies in advance,
Garson

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Hugo Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A common term for a full-fat website, as opposed to a mobile site, is
> "desktop site".
>
> Some examples:
>
> "Mobile | Desktop"
> http://m.youtube.com/
>
> "Mobile [/] Desktop"
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/
>
> "Desktop site"
> http://m.bbc.co.uk/
>
> "Desktop version"
> http://m.guardian.co.uk/
>
> "View desktop version"
> http://mobile.nytimes.com/
>
> "View Google in: Mobile | Classic"
> http://www.google.com/
>
> "Classic site"
> http://m.ebay.co.uk/
>
> "full site"
> http://stackoverflow.com/
>
> "Exit the Mobile Edition (view the standard browser version)."
> http://blog.stackoverflow.com/
>
> It doesn't really matter that you may use the desktop website on your
> laptop, especially as my laptop is on the desk and my desktop is on
> the floor.
>
> Hugo
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