Retronym: computer website

Hugo Hugo hugovk at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jul 20 09:00:13 UTC 2013


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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