URL Full Form, What is URL?

URL full form Uniform Resource Locator.

It is colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), although many people use the two terms interchangeably.

It is the address of a resource, which can be a specific webpage or a file, on the internet. It is also known as web address when it is used with http. It was created in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee.

It is used to identify the resource present in any network. It is unique for all the devices present in internet.

Example:

https://www.google.com, https://www.youtube.com

When you enter any URL in your browser's address bar, you will be redirected to the IP address mapped with the URL. This is known as DNS (Domain Name System).