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Posted by: Squaggleboggin

What exactly is a URL? How is it used? What is its purpose? Thanks guys.

Posted by: mobo

Its like an address for a website, similar to the one on your home or your phone number. How important is it..Well your can't have a website without one for starters.

[url]http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html[/url]

Posted by: Apokalipse

this is a url:
[url]http://www.tech-forums.net[/url]
and this is a url:
[url]http://www.google.com[/url]

when you type in a url it sends it to a server called a domain name server or DNS. this DNS gives you the IP address of the site you wish to go to.
an IP address is the address of a computer on the internet or a network, and you're not connected without one.
an IP address looks like this:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where the x's are the numbers
an 'octel' is a set of numbers separated by dots and does not exceed 255

Posted by: nemesis2004

Universal Resource Locator (i think)