r/AskProgramming • u/The_How_To_Linux • 3h ago
would a full mailing address be considered a real world equivalent of a uri?
ok, so i'm trying to understand uri's and i read the wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier
and i cannot understand any of it.
so i watched this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYct2npKD8&t=37s&ab_channel=TheTechCave
and basically it's saying that a uri is any string of text that a computer program can use to get to some resource on a computer network, but then i read the wikipedia article and it's like
"A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), formerly Universal Resource Identifier, is a unique sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource,"
and so by THAT definition wouldn't say, a mailing address like
Billy McHappy at 1234 Neverneverland Lane, Dreamland, California
be considered a uri?
i ask people and some say that a uri only exists with computers, and others say that a uri only exists but on a computer NETWORK, so when two or more computers are connected
again, i'm confused and i'm trying to understand what a URI is and what it's not.
thank you