What's in a URL

What's in a URL?

http://www.tmz.com

Domain name

Extension

Common Extensions.edu Educational organization (most US universities)

.com Company (usually .co in the UK)

.k12 US school site (not all US schools use this)

.org Any organization

.ac Academic institution (outside of US)

.gov Government agency

.sch School site (some schools outside of the US use this)

.net  Network

.biz Commercial Purpose .mil Military institution

Country Codes.uk United

Kingdom.mx Mexico

.ca Canada .sa Saudia Arabia

.za South Africa .cl Chile

.jp Japan .cn China

http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/text/web_country_codes.html

Are you on a personal page?A personal site created by an individual?

Do you see a % or a ~ in the web address? http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html 

Here's one!

Martin Luther King

Who owns this site?

Real or not? 

History of Robots

R-ead the URL

E-xamine the Site's contentA-sk about the author/publisherL-ook at the links