h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...what does URL mean because i have no idea.

Snowman

Universal something Language.

Actually I must have made that up.

Jeeves says it's Uniform Resource Locator.

It means 'web address'

but is an acronym for "Universal Regional(?) Link".

Sorry, I thought I knew...

Next!

peace
~jwf~

Could be, but language is included in HTML, the L oviously stands for language. I think the L stands for location as its getting it from somewhere.

Snowman

Universal Resource Locator.
example (that shouldn't get removed):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/

The bit before the colon (http) tells the browser what sort of connection is needed; http or https - normal and secure web, ftp - file transfer protocol, telnet - a telnet connection to a remote machine, file - a file on this machine.
The next bit (between the // and next /) is the actual machine to connect to - one of the bbc's web servers in this case.
Then there is the file to get /h2g2/guide/ This can be anything from a text file to html to dynamically generated stuff fron databases and perl or php scripts.

So there you go. More than you ever needed to know

Uniform Resource Locator as Mina pointed out above

Ignore my previous thread as I used Jeeves as well and so know its uniform resource locator.

Snowman

A good source for meanings of all things webby is the "Free On Line Dictionary Of Computing" or FOLDOC which can be entered by searching the acronym or by [URL information removed by moderator]. It's an 'old' site and the path to its door is well beaten and has many friendly variations following the dot bit.
jwf