1. SOME INTERNET
TERMS YOU
NEED TO KNOW
Neil Benjamin D. Bulaong
Bachelor of Elementary
Education Major in Preschool
Education
University of Santo Tomas
2. It is also called “electronic
mail.”
Invented by Ray
Tomlinson in late 1971.
It is a mail that is sent
through the internet.
Email
Can be used in all
things (Business
transactions, sendi
ng mail to a friend
etc.)
It is more faster and
convenient than snail
mail.
3. Wiki
It is a site that allows users to
add and update content using
their own browser.
Social bookmarking
It is the tagging of the website and saving
it for later. It is commonly called
bookmark.
4. HTML
Also known as
“Hypertext Markup
Language.”
It is a set of markup symbols
inserted in a file for display on a
WWW page.
It is where the web page is
written in.
5. P
O
D
C
A
S
T
It is an audio and can be
downloaded and can be used
in gadgets.
Podcasts are shows, similar to radio
or TV shows, that are produced by
professionals or amateurs and
posted to the Internet for
download and listening or viewing.
7. Online
Chat
It is the exchange of message
through the internet.
Unlike emails, you are talking to a
person in real time.
Also known as “World Wide Web.”
WWW
The Web consists of pages that can
be accessed using a Web browser.
8. Streaming
On the Internet, there are two ways to listen to or
watch audio and video files. The first way is to
download the file to your computer and watch the
file after it resides there.
It is where a file can be played and can be played
back without completely downloading it.
9. Blog
It is a list of journal that
is posted on a page.
One of the popular sites is tumblr.
Popular social networking sites
Are facebook and twitter.
Social Networking
It allows people to connect
each other virtually.
10. URL
Stands for Uniform Resource Locator.
A URL is a formatted text string used by Web
browsers, email clients and other software to
identify a network resource on the Internet
Web Feed
It is a data that is continuously updated
over time. An example of it is the news
feed of facebook.
11. References
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Bellis, M. (n.d.). History of email & ray tomlinson. Retrieved from
http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.html
Costello , S. (n.d.). What is streaming?. Retrieved from
http://ipod.about.com/od/glossary/g/streaming_def.htm
Costello, S. (n.d.). Definition of a podcast. Retrieved from
http://ipod.about.com/od/itunes/g/podcast_define.htm
Html. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.techterms.com/definition/html
Mitchell, B. (n.d.). Voip - voice over internet protocol. Retrieved from
http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/voicefaxoverip/g/bldef_voip.htm
Mitchell, B. (n.d.). Url. Retrieved from
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/internetaccessbestuses/g/bldef-url.htm
Nations, D. (n.d.). Social bookmarking 101 - what is social bookmarking and how can it
help me?. Retrieved from
http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialbookmarking101/p/aboutsocialtags.html
Trubac , A. (2005, September). Html (hypertext markup language). Retrieved from
http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/HTML
Wiki. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.techterms.com/definition/wiki
