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Depends of what a website is for you.

The same it is for everyone since the beginning of WWW: a static page with images. The web is uniquely unsuitable for anything else.

So forget e-commerce? Amazon didn't do too badly and CGI was hot on the heels of HTML so I think "everyone" is a little exaggerated.

> So forget e-commerce?

Says (s)he and immediately follows up with

> Amazon didn't do too badly

My point is that the WWW was a lot more than static HTML and CSS pretty soon after its inception.

You're confusing displaying different information at different URLs with being "more than static HTML and CSS".

This is a very old fashioned point of view I’m afraid, things have moved on.