Welcome everyone to my blog. Today we will discuss what a web address is and how it applies to everyday internet access. A web address or Internet address both terms used interchangeably is a unique address that allows you to locate a resource. For example the web address http://www.aol.com consists of http www AOL com. HTTP stands for something call Hyper Text Protocol which means that the page is accessible through web, but in most cases this is added automatically by your browser (i.e. Internet explorer, firefox). WWW is an acronym which stands for the World Wide Web. In conjunction with the HTTP portion of the address this means that the page is on the web. AOL is the name of the page or document that we are trying to access. Lastly the .com portion is what you call the domain. Every web page on the web is registered with either an .org .com .gov, etc. WWW.AOL.COM has a domain of .com or we can say AOL is registered as a .com address. Sometimes you will see a slash after a web address: www.aol.com/page1 this adds a new element to the previous address. The "/page" means that you are still on AOL.com, but you are just in a different section of www.aol.com the slash is a way to direct you to different sections of the current web page.
Well everyone take care for now and as always please comment or email me with any questions.
I understand the / but why is it that sometimes when you put that it wont take you to the site.
ReplyDeleteWell that depends. Often times websites will move resources around and maybe have a different address. When this happens you will recieve an error.
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