Today, an estimated 150+ billion public web pages are addressed using URL names.
Here are examples of the most common URL appearances:
Example: http://www.whitehouse.gov
Example: https://www.nbnz.co.nz/login.asp
Example: http://forums.about.com/ab-guitar/messages/?msg=6198.1
Example: ftp://ftp.download.com/public
Example: telnet://freenet.ecn.ca
Example: gopher://204.17.0.108
Example: http://english.pravda.ru/
Example: https://citizensbank.ca/login
Example: ftp://211.14.19.101
Example: telnet://hollis.harvard.edu
Example: http://www.whitehouse.gov
Example: https://www.nbnz.co.nz/login.asp
Example: http://forums.about.com/ab-guitar/messages/?msg=6198.1
Example: ftp://ftp.download.com/public
Example: telnet://freenet.ecn.ca
Example: gopher://204.17.0.108
Example: http://english.pravda.ru/
Example: https://citizensbank.ca/login
Example: ftp://211.14.19.101
Example: telnet://hollis.harvard.edu
Where Did URL's Come From? And Why Not Just Say 'Web Addresses'?
In 1995, Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, implemented a standard of "URIs" (Uniform Resource Identifiers), sometimes called Universal Resource Identifiers. The name later changed to "URL's" for Uniform Resource Locators. The intent was to take the idea of telephone numbers and apply them to addressing millions of web pages and machines.The name is solely a matter of being technically specific.
This may sound cryptic and complex at first, but once you get past the strange acronyms, URL's are really no more complex than an international long-distance telephone number with a country code, area code, and the phone number itself.
You'll find that URLs actually make a lot of sense. Next are several URL examples, where we will disassemble the URL's into their component parts...
This may sound cryptic and complex at first, but once you get past the strange acronyms, URL's are really no more complex than an international long-distance telephone number with a country code, area code, and the phone number itself.
You'll find that URLs actually make a lot of sense. Next are several URL examples, where we will disassemble the URL's into their component parts...
A URL Spelling Lesson: How We Spell URL Web Addresses
Here are some simplified rules that explain how URL's are spelled.
