What is a URL/URI?

Many (but not all) of the human names that we use on the internet are either URLs or URIs. URLs are uniform resource locators, a subset of the more general uniform resource identifier (URI). Whether you are using them to identify a web page or a Git repository, URIs have a common format.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

[Cognitoman]

never got to the point. it should have took 1 minute to show the difference. Although, I do appreciate to take the time to explain.