address

Address can be used in many different ways. Here are some of the ways address is used on the Internet:

1. An E-mail address is a designation to indicate the electronic mailbox of an individual or system on a network. Generally, an e-mail address consists of a specific username, handle or ID number and a DNS registered host system name. These two items are separated by a @ symbol. For example: the email address for the authors of this book is wwwe@tab.com.
2. An Web address, otherwise called a URL.
3. An IP Address is used to locate a specific computer on the Internet. Each computer has a unique IP address. An IP Address is a set of four numbers, each between 0 and 255, separated by periods; for example 127.0.0.1. Often these numbers are substituted with names that are easier to remember. For example, the IP address 205.216.146.10 has the domain name of www.yahoo.com. A service called Domain Name Services (DNS) keeps track of the names associated with an IP address, so when you try to access a computer using its name, DNS automatically directs you to the computer with the associated IP address.
4. An I/O device address. A communication parameter which allows the CPU to direct information and commands to a specific device.

W3E References:

E-mail

Information on how to locate an email address.

search engines

A link to a list of Internet search engines. You can use one of these to locate the URL address of almost anything on the Internet