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Even
websites have a place that they call home. The place
a website lives in
cyberspace
is called its address, also known as a
URL.
It usually looks something like this:
http://www.yahoo.com/.
A URL
(Uniform Resource Locator, previously Universal
Resource Locator) - usually pronounced by sounding
out each letter but, in some quarters, pronounced
"Earl" - is the unique address for a file
that is accessible on the Internet. A common way to
get to a Web site is to enter the URL of its home
page file in your Web browser's address line.
However, any file within that Web site can also be
specified with a URL. Such a file might be any Web
(HTML) page other than the home page, an image file,
or a program such as a common gateway interface
application or Java applet. The URL contains the
name of the protocol to be used to access the file
resource, a domain name that identifies a specific
computer on the Internet, and a pathname, a
hierarchical description that specifies the location
of a file in that computer.
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