Retronym: computer website

Pearl Shavzin-Dremeaux pshavzin at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 21 01:51:56 UTC 2013


Before I saw the below response, I asked my spouse, who is a programmer who
works in the digital advertising industry, and his response was indeed
"'desktop site' or 'desktop version'."

-Pearl


From: Hugo Hugo <hugovk at GMAIL.COM>
> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:00:13 +0100
> 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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