This document defines common online terminology used on the internet and world wide web. It provides definitions for terms like e-mail, wiki, social bookmarking, HTML, podcast, VoIP, online chat, WWW, streaming, blog, social media, URL, and web feed. Examples and brief explanations are given for each term. Sources from websites like Merriam-Webster and About.com are listed that provide additional information on the terms.

1. Common Online
Terminologies
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a system for sending messages from one
computer to another computer
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messages that are sent electronically from
one computer to another
E-Mail

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A collaborative Web site comprises the
perpetual collective work of many
authors. Similar to a blog in structure and
logic.
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A wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or
modify content that has been placed on
the Web site using a browser
Wiki

4. The practice of saving bookmarked Web
pages to a public website as a way to
share the links with other Internet users
 Social bookmarking is a tool that allows
you to add tags and comments to your
bookmarks.
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Social Bookmarking

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Developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, HTML
is short for HyperText Markup Language and
is a language used to create electronic
documents, especially pages on the World
Wide Web that contain connections called
hyperlinks to other pages
Without HTML a browser would not know how
to format a page and would only display plain
text with no formatting that contained no
links. Below is an example of a basic web
page in HTML code.
HTML

6. HTML Coding

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A multimedia file, such as a radio program
or video, that can be downloaded or
streamed from the Internet onto a
computer or mobile device. The method of
publishing files that can be used in this
way is called podcasting.
Podcast

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Sort for Voice over Internet Protocol, a
category of hardware and software that
enables people to use the Internet as the
transmission medium for telephone calls
by sending voice data in packets using IP
rather than by traditional circuit
transmissions of the PSTN.
VoIP

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Real-time communication between two
users via computer. Once a chat has been
initiated, either user can enter text by
typing on the keyboard and the entered
text will appear on the other user's
monitor.
Online Chat

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A technical definition of the World Wide
Web is: all the resources and users on the
Internet that are using the Hypertext
Transfer Protocol
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A broader definition comes from the
organization that Web inventor Tim
Berners-Lee helped found, the World Wide
Web Consortium
WWW

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Streaming or media streaming is a
technique for transferring data so that it
can be processed as a steady and
continuous stream.
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Streaming or media streaming is a
technique for transferring data so that it
can be processed as a steady and
continuous stream.
Streaming

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A blog (a truncation of the expression web
log) is a discussion or informational site
published on the World Wide Web and
consisting of discrete entries typically
displayed in reverse chronological order
(the most recent post appears first)
Blog

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Forms of electronic communication (as
Web sites for social networking and
microblogging) through which users
create online communities to share
information, ideas, personal
messages, and other content (as videos)
Social Media

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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. Network resources are files
that can be plain Web pages, other text
documents, graphics, or programs.
URL

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A continuous transmission of data,
consisting of news updates, to web sites
through a syndicated news service
provider.
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Subscribers receive the news feed, also
known as a web feed, as summaries or
links that refer the user back to the
original news source.
Web Feed

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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e-mail
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/wiki.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/social+bookmarking
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/html.htm
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/pod
cast
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VoIP.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/chat.html
http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/World-Wide-Web
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20media
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/internetaccessbestuses/g/b
ldef-url.htm
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/news-feed.html
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