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CBSE Class 10 Computer Applications Question 14 of 31

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Question 14(i)

What do you understand by the term URL? How is it different from an email address?

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A location on a net server is called a URL or Uniform Resource Locator.

The difference between a URL and an email address is as follows:

URLEmail Address
URL is the address of a webpage on the world wide web.An email address is the address of a mail box of an e-mail account holder.
A web address is written as type://address/path, where :

type — specifies the the type of server or protocol,
address — is the address of the server
path — tells the location of file on the server.		An e-mail address is written as username@hostname, where:

username — is the net name of the user
@ — symbol of at the rate
host name — is the server/host/network that services the e-mail.
A URL never has an '@' sign in it.An email address always contains an '@' sign.