Universal resource locator and navigation method

A system and method for locating and identifying information over an interactive communications network. The system comprises a stored program controlled apparatus for receiving user input information. A server provides telephone number-based locator service applications, the server having a program for receiving and processing telephone number-based resource locator information input by a user. The program controlled apparatus is linked to the server by a communications infrastructure. A server database maintains telephone number-based resource locator information and corresponding universal resource locator address information for access by the user. The program controlled apparatus has a first program for interactive network navigation, a second program for detecting telephone number-based resource locator input, and a third program for creating a telephone number-based locator service query and transmitting the query to the server.