URLs
Every Web page has its own address called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Much like the address on an envelope with a name, street address, city, state, and zip code, each part of a URL provides information about the Web page.
Here is a sample URL and descriptions of its components.
http://www.monkeywear. com/hats/baseballcaps.html
http - type of Internet connection, hypertext transfer protocol
www - host computer/server name
monkeywear - monkeywear is the second-level domain name (usually the name of the producer of the website, in this case, it is a company called monkeywear who sells clothes with pictures of monkeys or do they sell clothes for monkeys?)
com - top-level domain name (usually the type of institution, in this case, a company)
hats - directory name
baseballcaps - page name
html - type of file, hypertext mark-up language
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