The URL is one of those things that we definitely take for granted. I mean just think about how many times you type a URL in a week, a day an hour? Heck I will even count clicking on bookmarks for this post, because the URL in my opinion is one of the most useful things we have come up with in regards to the internet.
Now a URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, and I am going to spare you the technical details and let you know that if you REALLY want to know, Wikipedia has a pretty good article on it.
So back to why I am talking about URLs....
First learning how to read a URL can really save your ass in a time where cyber crime is at a all time high. We use the web so much, for banking, purchases etc...... that a wrong URL here or there can transform from a minor inconvenience to a really problem. For example, someone can easily spoof a banks homepage and steal your log on information if your not careful.
For example you can go to Bank of America's website : www.bankofamerica.com <----real
or if your not paying attention you could go to www.bankofamerica.net etc...... THERE ARE TONS OF POSSIBLE SCAMS!
So the bottom line is read!
No to address why I gave my friends a shout out. On our college newspapers website, we use our own domain name to redirect people to our webpage. In this case our domain is mytjnow.com and we get directed to www.something.com/mytjnow.
People get upset when they see the www.something.com/mytjnow, and claim that we are not legitiment because of that. So to the people who feel like that, I suggest you take one of Winthrop's fine CSCI 101 classes, because it will really help you understand how wrong you are. You see the reason CNN can have www.cnn.com is because they have thousands of dollars to spend on servers. We do not. So get over it, we are here to give you the news not to bedazzle you with our custom URL.
See this blog made sense.......
--Devang
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