Wikipedia: History of URL

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The URL was a fundamental innovation in
creating the World Wide Web.
It combines into one simple address the three basic items of information
necessary to find a document anywhere on the Internet:
*The machine or domain name to go to
*The path or file name on that machine
*The protocol to use to communicate with that machine

A typical simple URL can look like:

http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/RecentChanges

where
http: tells the protocol to use
//www.wikipedia.com tells the domain name to contact
/wiki/RecentChanges? tells the path to request on that system

	Revision 4 . . August 31, 2001 9:32 am by Alan Millar [key components of the URL; example]
	Revision 3 . . (edit) May 16, 2001 4:31 pm by Pinkunicorn