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URL, compact string of numbers, letters, and symbols that a computer uses to find a resource on a network and act upon it. URLs are often colloquially referred to as Web addresses, or simply …

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History Britannica was first launched online in 1994 as eb.com, which required a paid subscription to access. In 1999 the free website Britannica.com was launched, which contained the full text …

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Every resource on the Internet also has its own address, called a URL (uniform resource locator)—for example, http://www.britannica.com/shakespeare. The first part of the URL …