What a web searcher should know about the addresses of web pages, a.k.a. their URL's
The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the i to a source of information on the Internet. It can be seen in the location bar of a Web browser. The URL has four distinct parts, the protocol type, the host machine name, the directory path on that machine, and the file name. Each URL taken as a whole, that is from the protocol down to the file name, is unique on the Internet. For example, this is the URL of Ballet Dictionary at American Ballet Theatre website:
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| Protocol: http | this part of the URL indicates that the document is unique to the World Wide Web |
| Domain name: www.abt.org | top-level domain name: org second-level domain name: abt |
| Document path: /education/dictionary/ | directory or path of the document, indicates where on the machine the document is located. Similar to folders in the Windows. |
| Document: index.html | name of the file with the web page code. |