The document provides definitions for several key internet-related terms:
- Internet is a network of computer networks that connects computers worldwide and allows them to share information.
- The World Wide Web (WWW) is a system of hyperlinked documents that can be viewed via the internet using a web browser.
- HTML is the markup language used to create webpages and display content in a web browser.
- A URL is a character string that identifies a specific internet resource and is used in web addresses.
- A web feed delivers structured content updates from websites and blogs.
- Streaming delivers audio and video over the internet in a progressive download rather than a full file download.
- Podcasting makes audio programs
2. Internet is a part of our lives for now. It is so useful to
us that we students, I think, can never live our lives
without it and I can’t imagine if it doesn’t exist.
Maybe not just us students but also to many people
who live this time. So Internet, being useful to all of
us, is somewhat user friendly. But even though it is,
we must know some of terminologies under it, the
online terminologies.
What is inside the Internet?
3. The simplest meaning of the word internet is a network of
computer networks.
The Internet is the World's Largest Computer Network.
It connects networks all over the world.
A backbone of high-speed data communication lines
through which any connected computer can trade
information with any other connected computer.
A computer network is a group of computers connected
to each other so they can easily communicate and share
files and resources.
What is Internet?
4. It is abbreviated as WWW or W3
A system of interlinked hypertext documents
accessed via the Internet.
With a web browser, one can view web pages that
may contain text, images, videos, and other
multimedia and navigate between them
via hyperlinks.
Example: www.example.com
World Wide Web
5. Also known as HyperText Markup Language.
Main markup language for creating web pages and other information
that can be displayed in a web browser.
The authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide
Web.
Example:
<h1>Joe Student's First Web Page</h1> This Sam the penguin.<p>
<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/"> <img src="penguin.jpg"
alt="PENGUIN here" width="254" height="270" /> </a><p> Sam the
penguin likes to eat the following things:<p> <ul> <li>Sardines</li>
<li>Mackerel</li> <li>More sardines</li> <li>Other fish</li> </ul> <P> If you
click on Sam, you can visit the Ubuntu Linux site
HTML
6. It is short for Uniform Resource Locator.
Also known as web address and is particularly when
used with HTTP.
It is a specific character string that constitutes a
reference to a resource.
Example: http://www.leeds.ac.uk.
URL
7. Also known as news feed.
It is a document ,often XML-based, whose discrete content
items include web links to the source of the content.
News websites and blogs are common sources for web
feeds, but feeds are also used to deliver structured
information ranging from weather data to top-ten lists of
hit tunes to search results. The two main web feed formats
are RSS and Atom.
Web Feed
8. 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.
The other way to do it is to start a progressive
download of the file, where the file isn't downloaded
to your computer in a lasting way. This is called
streaming.
Streaming
9. Also known as netcast.
It is an audio or video program formatted to be
played on the iPod and made available for free or for
purchase over the Internet.
The name derives from the combination of broadcast
and iPod.
Podcast
10. A social bookmarking is a centralized online service
which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and
share bookmarks of web documents.
It is also tagging a website and saving it for later.
Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are
saving them to the web. And, because your
bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with
friends.
Social Bookmarking