Welcome to yet another software developer's personal home page.

Did you ever wonder about the etymology of the phrase 'home page'? Why not main page or entry page? How about index page since that is the name of the default html file?

The concept of home page is vague, and people use it to denote very different things. I have heard it called a landing page, although in marketing terms, a landing page is the Web page you 'goto' from an email.

To confuse things more, the word 'site' is sometimes used to denote a home page in one of those meanings, or in some other meaning, although it should basically be used to denote the entire collection of Web pages of a company or institution, residing on a Web server.

I have always thought of it as a noun but what if it is really a verb? The verb meaning "to be guided to a destination by radio signals, etc. (of missiles, aircraft, etc.) is from 1920; it had been used earlier in references to homing pigeons (1875). In that context, home page makes more sense. It is the page that quides the visitor to other destinations within the site.

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