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The most popular web browsers are :

Text Based Browser

Text - based browsers differ from the GUI - based browsers in the kind of content that they can display. A text - based browser provides access to the web in text mode only. Navigation can be done by highlighting emphasised words on the screen with the up or down arrow keys and then pressing the Enter key to follow the link. Text - based browsers demand low bandwidthbas they do not require more CPU resources for text content. Text - based browsers are especially useful with speech synthesis. Lynx is an example of a text - based browser.

WEB ADDRESS (URL)

The Uniform Resource Locator denotes the gobal address of web documents and web resources. The communication between a web user and an Internet resource is possible by identifying each resource on the Internet in a standardised manner. A uniform resource locator is the same as Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). It can be defined as a string of characters that is used to identify resources on the Internet.
An example of a website URL is as follows :
https ://www.india.gov.in./india - glance / states - india

ELEMENTS OF URL

The compenents of the URL are as follows : The Scheme : This is the first part of a web address, also known as the protocol identifier. It tells the Internet browser which protocol needs to be followed to access the address.
Example URL : https:// www.india.gov.in./india - glance / states - india
Here, the scheme is https. Other frequently used schemes are - ftp:// (file transfer protocol) and mailto:// (e - mail protocol).

The host :The second part of the web address identifies the host. The host starts typically with "www", which indicates the World Wide Web. This tells the browser where the resource, i.e., the site is located on the Internet. If the web address is an intranet, it will not begin with www because it is an internal website that can be viewed only by the internal computers of an organisation.

The Domain : A domain name follows the host. It is unique name given to each website. The domain name consists of two parts - one is the name of the domain, and the other is the web(or domain) extension. A web extension tells kind of organisation and the country it belongs to . All domain extension are monitored and regulated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICCANN) . For example, the ".gov" extension is used with the official government websites, and commercial organisations use ".com". Domain names are easier to remember than IP addresses since a name has a strong correlation with the website. The Domain Name System (DNS) serves as a directory for the web by locating and addressing devices in a worldwide network.

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