This document defines and provides brief descriptions of common internet and web-related terms such as email, wikis, social bookmarking, podcasts, HTML, VoIP, online chat, the World Wide Web, streaming, blogs, social networking, URLs, and web feeds. It explains what each term refers to, such as that email is the electronic sending and receiving of messages, wikis allow users to freely create and edit web page content, and social bookmarking involves users recommending websites to each other.

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Ma. Patricia Ann A. Jacinto
Bachelor of Secondary Education
University of Sto. Tomas

2. * Email
* Wiki
* Social bookmarking
* Podcast
* HTML
* VoiP
* Online chat
* WWW
* Streaming
* Blog
* Social networking
* URL
* Web Feed
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3. * Email is an electronic mail. It is the sending
and receiving of typewritten messages from
one screen to another. Email is usually
handled by a webmail service.
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4. *Wiki
is a piece of server software that allows
users to freely create and edit Web page content
using any Web browser. It supports hyperlinks
and has a simple text syntax for creating new
pages and crosslinks between internal pages on
the fly.
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5. * Social
bookmarking is a the specific form of
social media. Social bookmarking is where
users interact by recommending websites to
each other ('tagging sites').
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6. *A
Podcast is an audio program, like a radio show,
that is made by someone and then posted to the
Internet for you to download and listen to via
iTunes or your iPhone/iPod. Most of them are free
for you to download and listen to.
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7. * Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML) is the
programmatic language that web pages are based
on. HTML commands your web browser to display
text and graphics in orderly fashion. HTML uses
commands called 'HTML tags'
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8. * Stands for "Voice Over Internet Protocol,” it is basically a
telephone connection over the Internet. The data is
sent digitally, using the Internet Protocol (IP) instead of
analog telephone lines. This allows people to talk to one
another long-distance and around the world without
having to pay long distance or international phone
charges.
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9. * Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over
the Internet that offers a real-time
of text messages from sender to receiver.
* Online
transmission
chat may address point-to-point communications
as well as multicast communications from one sender to
many receivers and voice and video chat, or may be a
feature of a web conferencing service.
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10. * The World Wide Web is another way to describe
the Internet, which is a network of computers
which are connected and that share information
and allow communication around the world.
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11. * Data streaming, commonly seen in the forms of
audio and video streaming, is when a
multimedia file can be played back without
being completely downloaded first.
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12. * Short
for "Web Log," this term refers to a list of
journal entries posted on a Web page. A blog ('web
log') is a modern online writer's column.
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13. * Social networking websites allow users to be part of a
virtual community. The two most popular sites are
currently Facebook and Twitter. These websites provide
users with simple tools to create a custom profile with
text and pictures
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14. * URL's,
or 'uniform resource locators', are the web
browser addresses of internet pages and files. A URL
works together with IP addresses to help us name,
locate, and bookmark specific pages and files for our
web browsers.
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15. * A web feed (or news feed) is a data format
used for providing users with frequently
updated content.
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* http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internetlangua
ge/tp/the-top-internet-terms-for-beginners.htm
* http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
* http://ipod.about.com/od/introtopodcasts/a/intro_p
odcasts.htm
* http://pc.net/glossary/definition/voip
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat
* http://www.yourdictionary.com/world-wide-web