In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)'s a type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource's available and the mechanism for retrieving it. In popular usage and in many technical documents and verbal discussions it's often incorrectly used as a synonym for URI. In popular language, a URL's also referred to as a Web address. History The Uniform Resource Locator was created in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee as part of the URI. He regrets the format of the UR… (More on Url)