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If the editors of this digital rag weren’t such a bunch of prudish neo-Victorians, I would have made an amusing rhyme of this article’s title. Just kidding. My editors are decent, overworked professionals. I simply wanted to begin this article in a facetious fashion because too often those of us in the Internet information business try to pretend what we do is more serious and difficult than it actually is by obfuscating the obvious. Defining URL is a perfect example.

The acronym URL which stands for “uniform resource locator” has a nasty habit of appearing unexpectedly in otherwise well-written, understandable articles containing common English words and terms. One moment you are happily skimming along the writer’s word trail and the next you are jolted to a stop by the use of a completely unnecessary acronym that has not been committed to memory.

Most of the time, at least to those of us in the work-a-day world of the web, URL means nothing more than a certain domain name. If you look further, the techies will tell you at length that the domain is only part of the definition, that there are actually several other items in a URL. But who cares if “http: and “ftp:” are protocols. Of what interest to the ordinary reader is the fact that “www” is called a pointer or that com is a Top Level Domain.

Who cares that the domain name is only one of the web pages in a particular URL used to describe one of several IP addresses. And there we go again; spiraling downward into confusion with another example of the pretentious use of an acronym when two real words would be much more informative. IP in Internet speak means Internet Provider. But if you don’t spend your day using Internet terms of art it could mean–according to the Webopedia– at least 155 other things like International Paper, Intellectual Property and even “in particular.” Who needs this kind of mental mud wrestling every time they read an Internet-directed article?

Here is an example of a URL: < "http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html" >

So what is a URL? Looking at it you would judge it to be what…a web page? Right? Exactly! A URL is a specific web page. A resource if you will. A file. So instead of slapping the reader in the face with an strange acronym, why not just say “web page” instead of showing-off our Internet erudition and referring to it as a URL?

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