This document defines and provides brief histories of common online terminology: - Email is digital messages sent from one computer to another and the first was sent in 1971. Blogs are websites with discrete posts displayed in reverse chronological order, known as "weblog" since 1997. Chat involves real-time text messaging between users, starting with Talkomatic in 1974. URLs identify web resources and were standardized in 1994. Bookmarking enables users to save and share web document links, starting with del.icio.us in 2003.

1. Common Online Terminologies
Raf Amadeo E. Rosales

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One way to communicate using one computer sending a
message from one computer to another.
A method of exchanging digital messages from an author to
one or more recipients.
In 1971 the first ARPANET email was sent

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is a discussion or informational site published on the
World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts")
typically displayed in reverse chronological order.
First known as weblog by Jorn Barger In 1997.
The term “blog” was used by Peter Merholz.

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Any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a
real-time transmission of text messages from sender to
receiver.
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.
The first dedicated online chat service that was widely
available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in
1980

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Uniform Resource Locator(URL) is a specific
character string that constitutes a reference to a resource.
The Uniform Resource Locator was standardized in
1994 by Tim Berners-Lee.
A URL is a URI that, in addition to identifying a
web resource, provides a means of locating the resource by
describing its "primary access mechanism (e.g., its network
location)".

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a centralized online service which enables users to add,
annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents.
originated in around April 1996 with the launch of itList
Founded in 2003, Delicious (then called del.icio.us)
pioneered tagging and coined the term s o c ia l bo o km a rking .

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Is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented
to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.
In the early 1920s, George O. Squier was granted patents
for a system for the transmission and distribution of signals
over electrical lines which was the technical basis for what
later became M a k, a technology streaming continuous
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music to commercial customers without the use of radio.

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Also known as netcast is a digital medium consisting of an
episodic series of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files
subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or
streamed online to a computer or mobile device.
a technique for transferring data.
Streaming means listening to music or watching video in
‘real time’, instead of downloading a file to your computer
and watching it later.

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is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery
of voiccommunications and multimedia sessions over
Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.
The term I rne t te le p ho ny specifically refers to the
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provisioning of communications services (voice, fax, SMS,
voice-messaging) over the public Internet, rather than via
the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

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Is a web application which allows people to add, modify, or
delete content in collaboration with others.
WikiWikiWeb was the first wiki. Ward Cunningham started
developing WikiWikiWeb in Portland, Oregon, in 1994, and
installed it on the Internet domain c2.com on March 25,
1995.
It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a
Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him
to take the "Wiki Wiki Shuttle" bus that runs between the
airport's terminals.

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Is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via
the Internet.
Also known or most commonly known as The Web
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal that
referenced ENQUIRE, a database and software project he
had built in 1980, and described a more elaborate
information management system.
With help from Robert Cailliau, he published a more formal
proposal (on 12 November 1990) to build a "Hypertext
project" called "WorldWideWeb"

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A social network is a social structure made up of a set of
social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a
set of the dyadic ties between these actors.
is a platform to build social networks or social relations
among people who share interests, activities, backgrounds
or real-life connections.
Social networking websites function like an online
community of internet users.

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is the main markup language for creating web pages and
other information that can be displayed in a web browser.
In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internetbased hypertext system. Berners-Lee specified HTML and
wrote the browser and server software in the later 1990.

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Is a data format used for providing users with frequently
updated content.
Is a document (often XML-based) whose discrete content
items include web links to the source of the content.
Blogs and News websites are commonly sources of Web
Feeds.
Feeds are more often subscribed to directly by users with
aggregators or feed readers.

15. Thank You!
References:
http://www.ehow.com/about_4571179_history-of-chat.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
http://www.webopedia.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://wiki.org/
http://transition.fcc.gov/
http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/