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Term  ⌇ Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

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URI is an abbreviation for Uniform Resource Identifier. URLs are a unique identifier such as an IP address or a web address that can be used by a user to retrieve the intended resource.

Formerly, they were called Universal Resource Identifiers.

Every URL is a URI, but not necessarilly the other way around.

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