Home Address? NO! Try Internet Address (:

Home Address' all consist of numbers and the street name. While a Internet Address consists of a URL, and URL's are broken into three things;

1. The "Http" also known as the Protocol
2. The server name eg; www.howstuffworks.com
3. The file name eg; "web-server.htm"

The browser translates the server name into an IP address, and the IP address is basically a group of numbers that form your Internets unique signal.The four numbers in an IP address are called octets because they can have values between 0 and 255

My schools website is http://www.mcauley.nsw.edu.au, our domain name is McAuley Net, and to access our website we have to go through a protocol of entering user names and passwords to access our work, etc.