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World Wide Web
Internet and Its Uses · 4 question types
Exam Frequency Analysis
Past paper frequency (2018 to 2024)
This topic accounts for approximately 3% of your exam marks.
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The difference between the internet and the WWW, and cookie/browser functions, are typical questions.
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the text-based address of a specific resource on the web.
A URL is built from three main parts, in a fixed order:
protocol://domain-name/file-path
Why URLs are text-based
Computers route requests using IP addresses like 82.165.83.156. Numeric addresses are short for computers but impossible for humans to remember. A URL is the human-readable version: easy to type, easy to recognise, easy to share. The (next section) does the work of translating between the two.