Current Assignment(s)

A2: My First Repository
Due: Recommended by Monday, 5.21

Web Addresses

What U. R. L(ooking for):

You want to mail a package to an old friend, but you don’t know where to send it. When you ask for their address, you get a country, state, city, street, and house number.

We find sites on the web in pretty much the same way, but instead of looking for houses, we’re looking for other computers, servers, files, or even queries on a network. A “web addresses” or uniform resource locator (URL) is assigned to every website so that users and servers can find that site quickly and easily.

Directions for a site can be broken down similarly (in the most basic sense) to directions to a house, but more applicably into protocol, domain, path and file.

Continue to the next page to find out how this is done for the web.