This document defines and describes common online terminology: - Email allows digital messaging over the internet or networks, containing text, images, and files. The first email was sent in 1971. - Wikis are open-editing online databases that allow anyone to add and update information. The first wiki was created in 1995. - Social bookmarking allows users to bookmark, annotate, edit, and share web pages from different computers or to organize large numbers of bookmarks. - Other terms defined include HTML, podcasts, VoIP, online chat, the World Wide Web, streaming media, blogs, social networking, URLs, and web feeds.

1. Common Online
Terminologies
Crisanto J. Natividad Jr.
Bachelor of Secondary Education
University of Santo Thomas

2. Email
• Short term for Electronic Mail. It is a method of exchanging digital
messages between an individual or group of individuals.
• It may contain images ,files ,and other attachments depending on
how will you use it.
• It can be used through the use of internet or other communication
networks.
• The first e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.

3. Wiki
• The first wiki was created in 1995 for the Portland Pattern
Repository and is known to be the simplest online database that
could possibly work.
• It is an open editing database allowing any user to add and update
information, create new pages, etc. all over the Internet. The
community then decides what information is good or what
information is bad.
• "Wiki" (pronounced [ˈ
witi] or [ˈ
viti]) is a Hawaiian word meaning
"fast" or "quick".

4. Social Bookmarking
• Allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web
documents.
• Useful when accessing consolidated sets of bookmarks from various
computers.
• It can also be used in organizing large number of bookmarks and
sharing bookmarks to others.

5. HTML
• Developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
• Short for HyperText Markup Language. It is a language used to
create electronic documents, especially pages on the World Wide
Web that contain connections called hyperlinks to other pages.
• Used in formatting online pages through the use of codes to show
texts and images in an easy to read format.

6. Podcast
• Alternatively referred to as an audioblog.
• It is an audio broadcast that is often listened to on a computer
or smartphones that we have nowadays.

7. VoIP
• VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) is an internet protocol that allows
users to make calls through the use of internet instead of using
telephones.
• Cheaper than using telephones but sometimes at a lower audio
quality.
• VoIP also is referred to as Internet telephony, IP telephony, or Voice
over the Internet (VOI).

8. Online Chat
• May refer to any kind of communication over the internet that
offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to
receiver.
• It can be done by one-on-one chat or one-to-many group chat
using direct text-based or video-based (webcams).
• The first online chat system was called Talkomatic, created by Doug
Brown and David R. Woolley in 1974 on the PLATO System at
the University of Illinois.

9. WWW
• WWW(World Wide Web) also called web is a graphical interface for
the Internet that was first introduced to the public on August
6,1991 by Tim Berners-Lee.
• Is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via
the Internet.
• In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for what would
eventually become the World Wide Web.
• Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert
Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "to link and access
information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user
can browse at will", and Berners-Lee finished the first website in
December of that year. Berners-Lee posted the project on the
alt.hypertext newsgroup on 7 August 1991.

10. Streaming
• Streaming or Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly
received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a
provider.
• refers to the process of delivering media in this manner; the term
refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the
medium itself.

11. Blog
• A weblog or blog, is a listing of text, images, or other objects that are
arranged in a chronological order that first started appearing
in 1998.
• A Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for
an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the
personality of the author.
• The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December
1997. The short form, "blog", was coined by Peter Merholz, who
jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the
sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.

12. Social Networking
• Alternatively referred to as a virtual community or profile
site, a social network is a web site on the internet that brings people
together in a central location to talk, share ideas, share
interests, make new friends, etc.
• This type of collaboration and sharing of data is often referred to
as social media.
• Unlike traditional media that is often created by no more than 10
people, social media sites contain content that has been created by
hundreds or even millions of different people.
• The term itself was coined in 1954 by J. A. Barnes.

13. URL
• URL(Uniform Resource Locator) also known as web address is a
specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource.
• It is a form of URI and is a standardized naming convention for
addressing documents accessible over the Internet or Intranet.
• It is the global address of documents and other resources on
the World Wide Web.

14. Web Feed
• A web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users
with frequently updated content.
• A web feed 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.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/e/email.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/wiki.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/html.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/podcast.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/v/voip.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/www.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Www
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/weblog.htm
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/blog.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/socinetw.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/u/url.htm

16. References:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL
• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed