Email allows users to send electronic messages to other users through communication networks. Messages are stored in recipients' mailboxes until opened. Wikis are collaborative websites that allow multiple authors to edit, modify, or delete content. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunningham in Hawaii, where "wiki wiki" means "quick." Social bookmarking lets users save bookmarked web pages publicly to share links. HTML is the markup language used to format web pages. Podcasts are downloadable audio or video files. VoIP uses the internet to make phone calls. Online chat provides text-based communication online. The World Wide Web (WWW) is a collection of internet resources accessed through browsers, created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.

1. Common Online
Terminologies
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University of Santo Tomas
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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

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Techterms.com
Webopedia.com
Freeonlinedictionary.com
Merriam Websters Dictionary