Links connect web pages on the internet together. But when you see a link, there are two parts to it. The first is the hypertext or anchor text, a visible group of words to which a URL (that is, the Uniform Resource Locator) has been attached. The second part, which is usually hidden, is the web address or URL pointing to a place on a computer network and determining how to retrieve data from there. This URL is displayed when you hover over a hypertext with your mouse.