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| Since websites are considered resources, and every website the world over has a unique address per a uniform addressing scheme, “Uniform Resource Locater” (formerly Universal Resource Locater) or URL, is a fancy name for website address. A synonym that is actually more precise but less well-known is URI, or Uniform Resource Identifier. The term “URI” developed after URL had already gained widespread public use; hence URI is used by those involved in Internet development, standards and protocols, while URL is the prevalent term outside those circles. |