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=== Conception ===
URIs and URLs have a shared history. In 1990, [[Tim Berners-Lee|Tim Berners-Lee's]] proposals for [[hypertext]] implicitly introduced the idea of a URL as a short string representing a resource that is the target of a [[hyperlink]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Palmer |first1=Sean |title=The Early History of HTML |url=http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/ |website=infomesh.net |access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> At the time, people referred to it as a "hypertext name"<ref>{{cite web |title=W3 Naming Schemes |url=https://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html |website=www.w3.org |date=1992 |access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> or "document name".
Over the next three and a half years, as the [[World Wide Web|World Wide Web's]] core technologies of [[HTML]], [[HTTP]], and [[Web browser|web browsers]] developed, a need to distinguish a string that provided an address for a resource from a string that merely named a resource emerged. Although not yet formally defined, the term ''Uniform Resource Locator'' came to represent the former, and the more contentious ''Uniform Resource Name'' came to represent the latter. In July 1992 Berners-Lee's report on the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] (IETF) "UDI (Universal Document Identifiers) [[Birds of a feather (computing)|BOF]]" mentions URLs (as Uniform Resource Locators), URNs (originally, as Unique Resource Numbers), and the need to charter a new working group.<ref>{{cite web |title=Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Internet Engineering Task Force |page=193 |url=https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/24.pdf |access-date=27 July 2021}}</ref> In November 1992 the IETF "URI Working Group" met for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |title=Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Internet Engineering Task Force |page=501 |url=https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/25.pdf |access-date=27 July 2021}}</ref>
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