Sometimes, some things are too simple that we skip them while learning. An example is about one of three technologies behind the web- The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).

Majority of us still get it get wrong calling www.google.com a URL, when in fact is not. But, we could take a safety precaution in front of web geeks and call it a URI.

The Uniform Resource Identifier identifies an abstract or physical resource on the web. They can be classified as either of the following or both:

Uniform Resource Name (URN)Uniform Resource Locator popularly known as URL

A URN is a name of a particular resource on the web. A resource can be an image, article, audio, video file, etc. Even the root folder where all these are stored is also a URN; Hence, www.google.com and www.toheeb.com/images/new.jpg are both URN.

Since a URN is a subdivision of URI, we can also call them URIs.

URNs are names of resources and as such, like in English, we call them Nouns.

Now, what are URLs?

We just established that URNs are nouns, can we also say that URLs are one of the 8 parts of speech? Like ...

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