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• webmaster n. [WWW: from postmaster] The person at a site providing World Wide Web information who is responsible for maintaining the public pages and keeping the Web server running and properly configured.
• web pointer n. A World Wide Web URL. See also hotlink, which has slightly different connotations.
• backbone site n.,obs. Formerly, a key Usenet and email site
  one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps....
• browser n. A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database.
  While this general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more popular and provided a central or default meaning of the word previously lacking in hacker usage....
• ib site n. [by analogy with backbone site] A machine that has an on-demand high-speed link to a backbone site and serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party traffic in email and Usenet news.
  Compare leaf site, backbone site....
• ib site: [by analogy with {backbone site}] n. A machine that has an on-demand high-speed link to a {backbone site} and serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party traffic in email and USENET news.
  Compare {leaf site}, {backbone site}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• dead link n. [very common] A World-Wide-Web URL that no longer points to the information it was written to reach.
  Usually this happens because the document has been moved or deleted....
• lashdot effect n. 1. Also spelled "/. effect"; what is said to have happened when a website being virtually unreachable because too many people are hitting it after the site was mentioned in an interesting article on the popular Slashdot news service.
  The term is quite widely used by /. readers, including variants like "That site has been slashdotted again!...
• Quote #371 "And with so many pages sprouting every day, there is a desperate striving for uniqueness, which has resulted in some of the stupidest uses of cutting edge technology ever seen.
  -- Ashley Dunn of the NY Times, writing about the World Wide Web....