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A TCP/IP connection is always made to an IP address (you can think of an IP-address as the address of a certain computer, even if that is not always the case) and a specific (logical, not physical) port on that address.
Usually one port is coupled to a specific process or "service" on the target computer. Some port numbers are standardized, like 80 for http, 25 for smtp and so on. Because of that standardization you usually don't need to put port numbers into your web adresses.
So if you say something like http://www.stackoverflow.com, the part "...
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