ALSO CALLED: URI and Universal Resource Identifiers DEFINITION: To paraphrase the World Wide Web Consortium, Internet space is inhabited by many points of content. A URI (Uniform Resource Identifier; pronounced YEW-AHR-EYE) is the way you identify any of those points of content, whether it be a page of text, a video or sound clip, a still or
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UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS DEFINITION (continued): … animated image, or a program. The most common form of URI is the Web page address, which is a particular form or subset of URI called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). A URI typically describes:
The mechanism used to access the resource
The specific computer that the resource is housed in
The specific name of the resource (a file name) on the computer
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