URL
Noun
Meaning
Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, ftp site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
https://en.wiktionary.org/ is the URL of English Wiktionary.
Hypernyms: IRI, URI
(US, military, nautical) Initialism of unrestricted line officer.
Hypernym: line officer
(medicine, statistics) Initialism of upper reference limit.
Coordinate term: LRL
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That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
When youre dealing with digital goods, you dont have to be tied to one URL.
Eventually, if you had a printer that is IPP compliant, that printer will have a Web address and anyone around the world who can get on the Internet can print to that URL.
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.
An effective attack using a poisoned URL may reach tens of thousands of users in a short period when each user's contact list receives messages appearing to be from a trusted friend.