What is Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)?

A Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, is like a special address that helps you find things on the internet, just like your home address helps people find where you live.

Imagine the internet as one big neighborhood, and every website is a house in that neighborhood. A URL is like the street name and house number for each of those houses. For example, when you type www. example. com into a browser, that’s the URL, it tells your computer exactly where to go.

Think of a URL as having different parts, just like a mail address has different parts:

• The first part is usually like the street name: www.
• Then comes the domain name: example. com, which is like the house number and neighborhood name.

When you click on a link or type in a URL, your computer uses that special address to find the website, just like a delivery person uses an address to bring a package to your home. The more you use URLs, the easier it becomes to explore the internet, it's like learning all the streets in your neighborhood!