"the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), later renamed to the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)"
Nice resource, but I thought a URL is one form of URI, another being a URN.
Nice resource, but I thought a URL is one form of URI, another being a URN.
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According to the W3C, it used to be that:
> a URI was either a URL or a URN.
But now, it’s complicated:
> the view became that an individual scheme does not need to be cast into one of a discrete set of URI types such as "URL", "URN" […]
> Further according to the contemporary view, the term "URL" does not refer to a formal partition of URI space; rather, URL is a useful but informal concept […]
> Thus as we noted, "http:" is a URI scheme. An http URI is a URL.
All the above citations from https://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/
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The WHATWG holds a different view:
> Standardize on the term URL. URI and IRI are just confusing. […] URL also easily wins the search result popularity contest.
From https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
This may be what the author of the article had in mind.