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space on the top of your browser
that lets you type in the place a website lives, or
its address, and takes you there. When you browse to
a website you can look in the address bar to see its
address.
People use
the word address in several ways. You can ask
someone for the address of their server, or for
their home page on the Web, or where to send e-mail.
So an "address" can mean the unique
location of either (1) an Internet server, (2) a
specific file (for example, a Web page), or (3) an
e-mail user. It is also used to specify the location
of data within computer storage. An Internet address
or IP address is a unique computer (host) location
on the Internet (expressed either as a unique string
of numbers or as its associated domain name). A file
(or home page) address is expressed as the defining
directory path to the file on a particular server.
(A Web page address is also called a Uniform
Resource Locator, or URL.) An e-mail address is the
location of an e-mail user (expressed by the user's
e-mail name followed by an "at" sign
followed by the user's server domain name.)
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