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  1. It is spelled "URl"
    https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/03/it-is-spelled-url/

    There are many sectarian divides in computer.

    • "Little-Endians" and "Big-Endians" wage bitter war against each other over the order of bits.
    • Should line in text files end with \r\n or just \n?
    • And both vi and emacs users fight betwixt themselves while ignoring the superior foe - nano.

    Perhaps the most contentious of these is the battle between URI and URL. Should we refer to links on the web as Uniform Resource Identifiers or Locators? Obviously there is a correct answer - and anyone who disagrees is a heretic.

    So, I've come up with a compromise guaranteed to annoy satisfy everyone - URl.

    That's upper-case U, upper-case R, lower case L.

    Perfect!

    https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/03/it-is-spelled-url/

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