Is a Uniform Resource Locator and a Universal Resource Locator the same thing?

Question

Working with this, are they technically the same thing, or different? If different, how so?

Answer 1

It is confusing and I just researched the topic. There is confusion in the naming. In the beginning RFC's the URI Universal Resource Identifier was born with Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from w3.org many people confused the terms and old dogs like me still call them Universal Resource Locator. Although the correct terminology is; Uniform for everything. URI URL and URN are: Uniform Resource (Identifier, Locator and Name)

Answer 2

In computing, a uniform resource identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name or a web resource

VS

A uniform resource locator, abbreviated URL, also known as web address, is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource.

Never heard about UNIVERSAL but here are the common, URL and URI, I guess Universal must be probably a synonym

This guy here uses Universal in his article