| The space on
the top of your browser that lets you type
in the place a website lives, or its address, and takes you there.
When you browse to a website you can look in the address bar to see
its address. People use
the word address in several ways. You can ask someone for the
address of their server, or for their home page on the Web, or where
to send e-mail. So an "address" can mean the unique location of
either (1) an Internet server, (2) a specific file (for example, a
Web page), or (3) an e-mail user. It is also used to specify the
location of data within computer storage. An Internet address or IP
address is a unique computer (host) location on the Internet
(expressed either as a unique string of numbers or as its associated
domain name). A file (or home page) address is expressed as the
defining directory path to the file on a particular server. (A Web
page address is also called a Uniform Resource Locator, or URL.) An
e-mail address is the location of an e-mail user (expressed by the
user's e-mail name followed by an "at" sign followed by the user's
server domain name.) |
