2. • Electronic Mail
•
Email is like sending a letter, only
you send the message over the internet
and it gets to the other person's
email account within seconds.
• If you have an email address, you can
email anyone else who has an email
address, including government agencies
and lots of different kinds of
businesses.
Retrieved:
http://www.internetbasics.gov.au/getting_started_on_the_internet/using_emailhttp://www.internetbasics
.gov.au/getting_started_on_the_internet/using_emailhttp://www.internetbasics.gov.au/getting_started_o
n_the_internet/using_email
3. • A personal website which can
be used as a voice among the
online crowd.
• It can serve as your wall of
ideas. You can easily
customize its features and
put stuffs that you wanted
to post.
• It can serve as your online
diary which can be a good
tool to inspire others
4. ONLINE CHAT
• It is a kind of
communication over
the internet that
offers real-time
transmission of textbased messages from
the sender to a
receiver. (wikipedia)
5. •
•
Uniform Resource Locator
A URL is the address of a specific Web site
or file on the Internet. It cannot have
spaces or certain other characters and uses
forward slashes to denote different
directories. A URL is the address of a
specific Web site or file on the Internet.
It cannot have spaces or certain other
characters and uses forward slashes to
denote different directories
Retrieved: htpc.net/glossary/definition/urltp://
6. VoIP
• Stands for "Voice Over Internet Protocol," and is
often pronounced "voip." VoIP is basically a
telephone connection over the Internet. The data
is sentdigitally, using the Internet Protocol (IP)
instead of analog telephone lines. This allows
people to talk to one another long-distance and
around the world without having to pay long
distance or international phone charges.
Retrieved:
http://www.techterms.com/definition/voiphttp://www.techterms.com/
definition/voiphttp://www.techterms.com/definition/voip
7. SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Social media is the broad term for any
online tool that enables users
to interact with thousands of other
users. Instant messaging and chatting are
common forms of social media, as are
blogs with comments, discussion forums,
video-sharing and photo-sharing websites.
Facebook.com and MySpace.com are very
large social media sites, as are
YouTube.com and Digg.com.
Reaching the world nowadays seem possible
with social media.
Retrieved:
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internetlanguage/tp/the-topinternet-terms-for-beginners.htm
8. •
WWW
Stands for "World Wide Web." It
is important to know that this is
not a synonym for the Internet.
The World Wide Web, or just "the
Web," as ordinary people call it,
is a subset of the Internet. The
Web consists of pages that can be
accessed using a Web browser. The
Internet is the actual network of
networks where all the
information resides. Things like
Telnet, FTP, Internet gaming,
Internet Relay Chat (IRC), and email are all part of the
Internet, but are not part of the
World Wide Web. The Hyper-Text
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the
method used to transfer Web pages
to your computer. With hypertext,
a word or phrase can contain a
link to another Web site. All Web
pages are written in the hypertext markup language (HTML),
which works in conjunction with
HTTP.
Retrieved:
http://www.techterms.com/definition/w
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