Terms you may want to know or you may need to know. Its up to you. :)) :D

1. COMMON ONLINE
TERMINOLOGIES
Created By: Mark Jeffrey Dela Cruz Del Monte
1st Year 1E2
COMP1A
College of Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. E-MAIL
• Also known as Electronic Mail
• Referred as e-mail or email since 1993
• Is a method of exchanging digital messages from an
author to one or more recipients
• Its discovery replaced the so called “snailmail”

3. WIKI
• Usually a web application to add, modify or delete
information of a certain topic or term.
• Wikipedia is one of the websites where info can be
attained and shared
Ward Cunningham,
inventor of the wiki

4. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
 A social bookmarking service is a
centralized online service which enables
users to add, annotate, edit, and
share bookmarks of web documents.
 Social bookmarking and file sharing are
two different topics.

5. HTML
 Also known as HyperText Markup
Language.
 It is the main markup language for
creating web pages and other information
that can be displayed in a web browser.
Logo of HTML 5

6. PODCAST
 Also known as netcast.
 Digital medium consisting of an episodic series of audio, video,
PDF or ePub files.

7. VOIP
 Also known as Voice over Internet Protocol.
 A methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of
voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet
Protocol (IP) networks such as internet.

8. ONLINE CHAT
 A kind of communication in which the internet is involved for
having chats.
 Also, it is a kind of communication over the internet that offers a
real time transmission of text messages from the sender to the
receiver

9. WWW
 Also known as the world wide web, w3 or the web.
 Via internet, it is a system of interlinked hypertext documents
 Using a web browser, one can view web pages that contain
information like text, images, videos and other multimedia and
navigate between them via hyperlinks.

10. STREAMING
 It is the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium
itself.
 Also known as media streaming
 It is a technique that transfers data to which that it can be
processed as a steady and continuous stream.

11. BLOG
 It is also considered as a truncation of the expression web log.
 A discussion or a site which is informational and is published on
the world wide web that consists of post/ discrete entries. These post
are typically displayed in reverse chronological order (means that the
most recent post appears first).

12. SOCIAL NETWORKING
 It is a method among people who communicate, share interests,
activities, backgrounds or real life connections.
 Websites are commonly used in this method.
 The websites are called social sites where people share their
thoughts, opinions, views, etc. to the world.

13. URL
 Also called as uniform resource locator, web address or HTTP.
 It is a specific character string that consists a reference to a specific
resource.
 It is usually typed on the top inside the address bar.

14. WEB FEED
 Also known as a news feed.
 Sometimes referred as a syndicated feed.
 A collection of these web feeds that is accessible in one spot is
known as a aggregation.
 A data format used for providing people or users with continuous
updated content.

15. REFERENCES
 Some meanings taken from http://www.wikipedia.org/
 Others are either created, rephrased or merely thought by creator.
 Pictures taken from Google.com.