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A Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, is a standardized address for some resource (such as a document or image) on the Internet. First created by Tim Berners-Lee for use on the World Wide Web, the currently used forms are detailed by IETF standard RFC 2396 (1998).

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

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 A '''Uniform Resource Locator''', or URL, is a standardized address for some resource (such as a document or image) on the [[Internet]]. First created by [[Tim Berners-Lee]] for use on the [[World Wide Web]], the currently used forms are detailed by [[IETF]] standard [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt RFC 2396] (1998).
+The URL was a fundamental innovation in
+[[History of the Internet|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