All I can figure is that some portion of the young hacker crowd grew up with such ubiquity of URLs that they never reflected on the meaning of the name. Or bots.
URLs are a subset of URIs, the differences are subtle for the most part you can ignore the existence of URNs and pretend URL == URI but it is useful to understand how they relate and that there is a difference.
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All I can figure is that some portion of the young hacker crowd grew up with such ubiquity of URLs that they never reflected on the meaning of the name. Or bots.
Let's help them along a bit then with some real info instead of this watered down errm... stuff:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html
Which has since been superseded by
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html
and in turn by:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3986.html
I think that's where we are right now, I might be wrong.
Happy reading.
Incidentally, the article refers to URLs, instead of URIs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier
URLs are a subset of URIs, the differences are subtle for the most part you can ignore the existence of URNs and pretend URL == URI but it is useful to understand how they relate and that there is a difference.