What is a URL?

Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

The first part of the address indicates what protocol to use, and the second part specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located.

For example, the two URLs below point to two different files at the domain www.nyise.org. The first specifies a file located in the subdirectory "fanny" of the NYISE website; the second specifies a Web page that should be fetched using the HTTP protocol:

http://www.nyise.org/fanny/index.html
http://www.nyise.org/index.html

Merriam-Webster Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/

RFB&D Catalog
http://www.rfbd.org//

Ed. Administration Online
http://www.lrp.com/ed/

Electric Library
http://www.elibrary.com/

Learning Using the Internet
http://www.ala.org/ICONN/

Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

Teachers' Databases
http://www.internets.com/steach.htm

NYISE Helping Hand to the Internet
http://www.nyise.org/education/

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This page is located at:
http://www.nyise.org/inservice/url.html