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>For example, is Facebook a web page or a web app?

Is this a trick question? :) On the scale from pages to apps, where one end is someone's static geocities page about their cats and the other end is, let's say, github: Facebook is definitely an app.

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It's kind of a trick question in that my point is that it is a more of a scale than a binary opposition, and that the ability to mix document-like parts with program-like parts is what made the web so incredibly successful.

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