The term URL is an initialism for "Uniform Resource Locator." It was coined in the early 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and his colleagues at CERN. The phrase "Uniform Resource Locator" was created to provide a standardized, systematic way to address and retrieve resources across the nascent Internet. The word "uniform" indicates a consistent format, "resource" refers to any identifiable entity (like a document or image), and "locator" specifies its network address. As the web became ubiquitous, the initialism "URL" entered common vocabulary as a simplex term for a web address.

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