I’m running into “URI” more and more in tech talk space.

URI = Universal Resource Identifier (in)

URL = Universal Resource Locator (out)

The hip initials are “URI” explained here.

I predict “the people” will keep “URL” alive. People like to talk a little geek, but not this much. A conversation I heard the other day: “No, that’s an e-mail address, what you need is the URL. URLs don’t have ats in them.”