What is URL (Uniform Resource Locator)?
Uniform Resource Locator is a special scheme that tells the user exactly where a resource is located on the Internet. What is web browser? A web browser is a program that is allows a user to display and interact with a hypertext document. Some of the popular web browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Eye, Neoplanet, Lynx etc. Web browsers are of two types: 1. Text Only Browsers A text only browser such as Lynx allows you to visit web pages without showing art or page structure. Essentially you look at text on the screen. The advantage of a text-only browser is that it displays web pages very fast. This is because it need not transfer images, voice and other media that occupy large amount of memory. 2. Graphical Browsers The two graphical browsers that are currently in use are Netscape, Internet Explorer. The graphical browsers are significantly slower than their text only counterparts since the multimedia files/graphics in these browsers often take a long time to d
