Nowadays, everyone is familiar with the internet. It would not be wrong to say that everything is on the internet today. Whether it is for entertainment purposes, official work, school work, etc., people always visit relevant sites on the internet.
Nowadays, banking, shopping, and everything else is happening online. Have you ever thought how the internet works? Have you ever wondered how you access or get information from a website?
What is the mechanism, and what is it that is unique for every website?
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What is the URL Address?
Let’s understand this using an example.
Your friend lives in a different city. You miss them a lot, and you want to send them some gifts by post to let them know you care about them. What do you think? What is the one thing you are supposed to know so that the parcel gets delivered to your friend? Friend’s address, Right. So, you will take the parcel to a courier service, and give them the address of your friend’s house.
Now, you know that every house has a unique address. The address of any two houses could not be the same. For the parcel to be delivered to the right person, you have to know their unique address.
The Same is the case with web pages.
On the internet, Every website or webpage has a unique address.
When you want to visit a website, say Google’s homepage, you will navigate to the browser’s address bar and type in – www.google.com. The web page’s address is the complete path you type in the address bar. This address, in digital terms, is known as a URL.
What is the Full Form of URL in a computer?
Now you know what a URL is, but you must be wondering what is URL’s full form. URL stands for “Uniform Resource Locator”.
As the name suggests, a URL is an address used to locate a resource on the internet.
I hope you understand very well What URL is and its Full form.
Now, the question arises, How can I find my URL?
You should know that everything on the internet has a unique address. But different things have different types of addresses. Now, when you access the internet using your device, you have a unique address that can be used to find and distinguish you on the internet. But this address is not the same as a URL. URLs are addresses for web pages. Your device has a different type of address, which is known as an IP Address. An IP address or Internet Protocol address is a numerical string that is assigned to all the devices that are connected to a network (ex: Internet), and this numerical string is unique for each device.
So, do you have an individual URL? No, you do not. But you do have an IP Address. There is a lot more to IP Addresses, but that will be covered in a different article. Till then, Adios!
