SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE WEB

URL: AN ADDRESS ON THE WEB

A URL -- Uniform Resource Locator (usually pronounced like the name "Earl") is an address on the Web.

Just like every house has a street address, every Web site has a URL.

URLs follow a particular format or pattern, providing information about the Web site that you are using:

URL FORMATS

This is the basic format that a URL follows: protocol://server & domain/directory/file & extension

This is the URL for the Yahoo® search engine: http://www.yahoo.com

This is the URL for the page that you're reading right now: http://med-libwww.bu.edu/library/tutorial/url.html

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