A website (also written as web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Notable examples are wikipedia.org, google.com, and amazon.com. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.

WorldWideWeb

Kim Nyberg, Kari Sydänmaanlakka, Teemu Rantanen, and Kati Borgers were the four college students who developed the first graphical point-and-click web browser in Helsinki, Finland, in 1991, and completed it in April 1992.

Introducing the 20 most popular websites

• Google. There’s no doubt that Google is the most popular search engine, but this year it remains at the top spot as the most popular website on the internet.
• YouTube.
• Amazon.
• Facebook.
• Yahoo.
• reddit.
• Wikipedia.
• eBay.

Uniform Resource Locator

A URL usually looks something like this: It (usually, but not always) starts with “http://” or “https://” it is often followed by “www” and then the name of the website you want to visit.

You enter a URL into a web browser. The browser looks up the IP address for the domain name via DNS. The browser sends a HTTP request to the server. The server sends back a HTTP response.

URL. A URL (aka Universal Resource Locator) is a complete web address used to find a particular web page. While the domain is the name of the website, a URL will lead to any one of the pages within the website.

A domain name is a human-friendly text form of the IP address. URL is a string that represents the complete web address of any web page. 3. It is the string that represents a complete web address that contains the domain name.