Internet Basics: A URL is Like a Leftovers Note

by Grant Pasay

Ever get a leftovers note when you came home late one night? It might have said something like:

"Went to bed. There's chicken in the fridge and pie in the freezer."

That's what a URL is like.

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, which is really a fancy way of saying it tells you where something is located on the Internet. Most of us only encounter URLs that tell us where a website or webpage is. For example: