Common Online Terminologies

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E-Mail

a system for sending messages from one computer to another computer

messages that are sent electronically from one computer to another

Wiki

A collaborative Web site comprises the perpetual collective work of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and logic.

A wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or modify content that has been placed on the Web site using a browser

Social Bookmarking

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.

HTML

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 Coding

Podcast

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.

VoIP

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.

Online Chat

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.

WWW

A technical definition of the World Wide Web is: all the resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol

A broader definition comes from the organization that Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee helped found, the World Wide Web Consortium

Streaming

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

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

Blog

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)

Social Media

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)

URL

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.

Web Feed

A continuous transmission of data, consisting of news updates, to web sites through a syndicated news service provider.

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.

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