2. Email
• Short for Electronic Mail
• Transmission of messages over communications
networks
• You send the message to the recipient by specifying the
recipient's address. You can also send the same message
to several users at once which is called broadcasting.
• Sent messages are stored in electronic mailboxes until
the recipient opens them
3. Wiki
• Collaborative website which comprises of
work from many different authors
• Anyone is allowed to edit, modify, or delete
content that has been placed on this website
• The term “wiki” refers to the website or the
software used to create the site
• “Wiki wiki” means “quick” in Hawaiian
• The first wiki was created by Ward
Cunningham
4. Social Bookmarking
• The practice of saving bookmarked web
pages to a public website as a way to share
the links with other internet users
• Tool that allows you to add tags and
comments to your bookmarks
5. HTML
• Short for HyperText Markup Language
• It is the authoring language used to create
documents on the World Wide Web
• It is the tag used to format and layout the
information in a web page
6. Podcast
• A digital audio or video file or recording
that can be downloaded from a website to
your computer
7. VoIP
• Short for Voice over Internet Protocol
• It allows people to use the internet as a
telephone by sending voice data
8. Online Chat
• Communication that takes place with the
use of the internet
• Usually offers a transmission of text based
messages
9. WWW
• Short for World Wide Web
• Collection of internet resources that can be
accessed and searched by browsers
• Created in 1989 by UK physicist Tim
Berners-Lee
10. Streaming
• Data streaming is commonly seen in the
forms of audio or video streaming
• It is when a file can be played completely
without being downloaded first
11. Blog
• Short for Web log
• It is used as a public journal
• Usually updated daily
12. Social Networking
• A social network represents relationships
between people, groups, organizations, etc
• It is used as a way to connect with people
through different networks like Facebook
• Term was coined by J.A Barnes in 1954
13. URL
• Stands for Uniform Resource Locator
• Address of a specific website or file on the
internet
14. Web Feed
• Data format used for providing users with
frequently updated content
• Those who distribute content through a
web feed allow users to subscribe to it
