Help me with this: What is URL?

Question

I've bin downloading stuff from the net lately & I've come across this term;*****URL****, I've no Idea what it is or what it means, help me out.

Answer 1

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings:

* in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) — many popular and technical texts will use the term "URL" when referring to URI;
* strictly, the idea of a uniform syntax for global identifiers of network-retrievable documents was the core idea of the World Wide Web. In the early times, these identifiers were variously called "document names", "Web addresses" and "Uniform Resource Locators". These names were misleading, however, because not all identifiers were locators, and even for those that were, this was not their defining characteristic. Nevertheless, by the time the RFC 1630 formally defined the term "URI" as a generic term best suited to the concept, the term "URL" had gained widespread popularity, which has continued to this day.

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), is a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource. The main purpose of this identification is to enable interaction with representations of the resource over a network, typically the World Wide Web, using specific protocols. URIs are defined in schemes defining a specific syntax and associated protocols.

In a few words:
A URL is like a telephone number that also can contain letters used to identify a place (where you are calling).

Answer 2

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) refers to the name of a website you access for information. It's the identity/name of the website, using which you can identify a particular website.

If you want to save the link to a website for future reference/access, you use its name which is URL in technical terminology. Without URL we would not be able to identify individual websites.

More Information here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

Answer 3

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