what's URL?

Answer 1

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a string of characters conforming to a standardized format, which refers to a resource on the Internet (such as a document or an image) by its location.

For example, the URL of this page on Wikipedia is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator.
An HTTP URL, commonly called a web address, is usually shown in the address bar of a web browser.

The term is typically pronounced as either a spelled-out initialism ("yoo arr ell") or as an acronym (earl or ural).

Tim Berners-Lee created the URL in 1991 to allow the publishing of hyperlinks on the World Wide Web, a fundamental innovation in the history of the Internet. Since 1994, the URL has been subsumed into the more general Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), but URL is still a widely used term.

The U in URL has always stood for Uniform, but it is sometimes described as Universal, perhaps because URI did mean Universal Resource Identifier before RFC 2396.

Answer 2

URL (pronounced like the letters "U," "R," "L," not like the word "earl") stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is the Internet address of a particular site or document available via the World Wide Web. The URL above is the address for the SRJC Library Hours web page.

URLs are composed of several parts, indicating

* the Internet protocol used to access the document or site you are trying to reach,
* the Internet address of the "host computer," on which the document you want is stored,
* the directory path on the host computer that will take you to the exact file you are trying to retrieve, and
* the name of the file you are trying to retrieve.

Answer 3

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) provides a way of uniquely specifying the address of any document on the Internet. This is the lynchpin of WWW's embedded linking. The typical URL specifies the method used to access the resource (the protocol), the name of the host computer on which it is located, and the path of the resource

Answer 4

"URL" stands for Uniform Resource Locator. The acronym "http" stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. URL is a World Wide Web address and that most World
Wide Web addresses begin with "http".

Answer 5

URL = U R LOVELY

LOL
just kidding (of course)

it stands for-->Uniform Resource Locator

Answer 6

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a string of characters conforming to a standardized format, which refers to a resource on the Internet (such as a document or an image) by its location.

Answer 7

A URL is a Uniform Resource Location
eg http://www.yahoo.com

Answer 8

Uniform Resource Locator - the name of a web site for example

Answer 9

Uniform Resource Locator. See definition link below.

Answer 10

Uniform Resource Locator

The address for a web page basicly