resourcesuniformcomputerlocatersbasicsof COmputer

1. •English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990. The browser
was released to general public in August 1991.
•The World Wide Web has been central to the development of the Information Age, and is the primary tool billions of people use
to interact on the Internet.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
•A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), also called web address is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a
computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
•URLs reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other
applications.
•Most web browsers display the URL of a web page above the page in an address bar.
•Dissection of URL: A typical URL could have the form
protocol://domain name(host name)/filename
for example: http://www.example.com/index.html
Here, http is a protocol
www.example.com is hostname
index.html is a file name which contains information

2. •English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990. The browser
was released to general public in August 1991.
•The World Wide Web has been central to the development of the Information Age, and is the primary tool billions of people use
to interact on the Internet.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
•A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), also called web address is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a
computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
•URLs reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other
applications.
•Most web browsers display the URL of a web page above the page in an address bar.
•Dissection of URL: A typical URL could have the form
protocol://domain name(host name)/filename
for example: http://www.example.com/index.html
Here, http is a protocol
www.example.com is hostname
index.html is a file name which contains information