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This page was designed and organized by a Japanese young man named AporiaSS.
Among Japanese, the term "Home Page" is understood and used indifferent way than its original.
AporiaSS is getting lost, which way should follow, to follow originalway of usage or to follow present Japanese understanding.
How do you understand and use the term "home page"?
Originally,"Home Page" means the initial page which WWW browsershows.
Your browzer must show the intial page by clicking "HOME" botton.
And, it is now widely understood that the home page is the covering page of a web site.
Many Japanese internet users use the term "Home Page" to indicateall of the pages shown on WWW browser.
This understanding is widely observed among new commers, and most of themdo not know even the words "web page" or" web site".
Quite few people call only the covering page or the intial page shown on WWW browser "Home Page".
Those who use the term "Home Page" to express whole web pages,often say abbreviated word "HP", of course it is not the name of famous computer maker.
Some times, funny Japanese "ho-me-pa-ge" might be observed.
Many of Japanese know the original meanings of neither "Home Page",web page, nor web site.
AporiaSS is struggling to make the original meaning of "homepage" popular among Japanese. But, the activity does not seem to be so successful, for misunderstoodusage of "Home Pge" is too widely accepted, just like the the word "hucker" is commonlymisunderstood .
As a matter of fact, AporiaSS himself gets lost of his way to use theterm "Home Page".
What is "home page"？
The initial page which WWW browser shows?,covering page of the web site? or web pages on the whole?
AporiaSS has made a discussion about the meaning of "web site".
The idea of AporiaSS is that the web site is the directory on which webpages are located.
Two other ideas has been discussed on the spot;
*"General name of the web pages managed by certain person, the sameusage as Home Page used by many Japanese " * " Web site means WWW server.
It does not mean the web pages managed by individuals, nor directories."
What is "web site"？
The meanings of the word changes according to the time.
More important point is how to express the proper meaning and let the othersunderstand,than what is correct.
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