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Why do so many web site addresses start with “http”?

April 26, 2017addresses http web site

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Why do so many web site addresses start with “http”?

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Your web browser has to communicate with a web server (the computer on which a web site is stored) to ‘call up’ a web page. To do this web browsers use a means of communication called HTTP. This stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. So when a website address starts with ‘http://’ the browser is using that protocol to ‘ask for’ and receive web pages.