e-Pedia: URL

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A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), commonly informally termed a web address (a term which is not defined identically) is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), although many people use the two terms interchangeably. A URL implies the means to access an indicated resource and is denoted by a protocol or an access mechanism, which is not true of every URI. Thus http://www.example.com is an URL, while www.example.com is not. URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications.
This book has been derived from Wikipedia: it contains the entire text of the title Wikipedia article + the entire text of all the 99 related (linked) Wikipedia articles to the title article. This book does not contain illustrations.
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Wikipedia contributors, also known as Wikipedians or editors are the volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia's articles, unlike readers who simply read them. Wikipedians do a wide variety of tasks, from creating new articles, fixing typos and removing vandalism to resolving disputes and perfecting content, but unite in a desire to make human knowledge available to every person on the planet.