This document defines and explains common online terminology used today. It provides definitions for terms like email, blogs, online chat, social bookmarking, URLs, streaming, podcasts, VoIP, wikis, social networking, the World Wide Web (WWW), HTML, and web feeds. Each term is concisely defined and some additional context is provided about the purpose or history of the technology or concept.

1. Common Online
Terminologies
By: Angelo Christopher Dy
Bachelor of Secondary Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. Email
• Short for electronic mail.
• The electronic interoffice, inter-organizational
mail system.
• This replaced an intricate paper mail system that
most businesses and organizations relied on to
relay things like messages and memos before its
creation.
• It was created by Shiva Ayyadurai in 1978 at
UMDNJ in Newark, NJ..

3. Blog
• Short for Weblog
• It is a habitual publication of personal
thoughts, feelings and ideas.
• It is commonly known as mix between a diary/
journal and a guide but due to its rise in
popularity other types of blogs have been
created.
• It is a way for people to share their innermost
feelings with other people.

4. Online Chat
• It is a real-time conversation between people
through an online service and computer.
• It is used for long distance communication but
more notably used for E-learning in the form of a
virtual classroom.

5. Social Bookmarking
• It is the action of saving different websites with
tags and sharing it with others.
• It is mostly used for entertainment like sharing
funny links to your friends.
• Another known use is the sharing of information
so that others can gather different perspectives
on certain topics.

6. URL
• An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator
• The unique web address for websites as
well as its other pages, images and files.

7. Streaming
• A technique wherein users can listen or watch
multimedia files through the internet without
downloading the file beforehand.

8. Podcast
• A media file that can downloaded and used a
source of information, newsfeed and etc.
• Created by Apple in 2004 for the Ipod.
• It can compared to radio show only in its prerecorded form.

9. VoIP
• Stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol
• It is a way for users to communicate
without being charged for long distance
fees.

10. Wiki
• From the Hawaiian phrase “wiki wiki”which
means really fast
• It is a collection of web documents that can be
freely edited and uploaded by users.

11. Social Networking
• It the use of web-based programs to create a
profile to make connections with family, friends
or other people who share a connection with the
user.

12. WWW
• A collection of multimedia that consists of
documents, media files, games and etc. that
users may view through the use of a web
browser.
• Created by Tim Berners-Lee

13. HTML
• Hypertext Markup Language
• It is the language or code used for the creation
of plain text or multimedia documents for the
WWW.

14. Web Feed
• Data format used to inform users of an
update of content in websites.

15. References
• The Background
http://madspeitersen.deviantart.com/art/Art-meats-technology-169430851
• Email
http://www.inventorofemail.com/ definition_of_email.asp
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/e-mail
• Blog
http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/
http://www.techterms.com/definition/blog
• Online Chat
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chat
http://www.wimba.com/company/newsroom/archive/k_12_teacher_explains_what_a_virtual_cl
assroom_really_looks_like/
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/chat.html
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/virtual-classroom

16. References
• Social Bookmarking
https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
• URL
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/URL
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html
• Streaming
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.html
http://www.techterms.com/definition/streaming
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/stream_5
• Podcast
http://www.brickmarketing.com/what-is-a-podcast.htm
http://www.csus.edu/irt/newsletter/issue/2/9.stm
http://www.howtopodcasttutorial.com/what-is-a-podcast.htm
• VoIp
http://www.techterms.com/definition/voip
http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/voicefaxoverip/g/bldef_voip.htm

17. References
• Wiki
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/glossary/definition268.html
http://www.techterms.com/definition/wiki
• Social Networking
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-networking.asp
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x/full
http://www.danah.org/papers/JCMCIntro.pdf
• WWW
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/5217/world-wide-web-www
http://www.techterms.com/definition/www
• HTML
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/HTML
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/HTML.html
http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/HTML

18. References
• Web Feed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed