What is an URL? URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. An URL is similar to your street address for your home. Just as your street address lets the pizza deliveryman find your house, a web page's URL lets it be found by any other computer connected to the internet. The URL of a web page takes a particular form. The URL of this particular page is http://www.wwwriting.com/avcoll/weburl.html. Here's what the different parts of the URL mean: http://: tells the web browser that the URL is of a web page. www.wwwriting.com is the domain name of the server where the web page is stored. /avcoll/ shows which directory the URL is located in on the server. weburl.html is the name of this actual page, with the .html suffix indicating that the page is written in HTML.

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