Common Online Terminologies

Pamela Mae G. YalungBachelor of Secondary Education

University of Santo Tomas

E-mail

• Email, sometimes written as e-mail, is simply the shortened form of “electronic mail,” a system for receiving, sending, and storing electronic messages. It has gained nearly universal popularity around the world with the spread of the Internet. In many cases, email has become the preferred method for both personal and business communication

Blog

• A blog (short for weblog) is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption.

Online Chat

• The term online chat is used to refer to any type of communication that needs the internet to take place. This type of communication usually offers real time and direct transmission of text based messages.

Social Bookmarking

• It is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to the web. And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.

URL

• Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) it is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

Streaming

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

Podcast

• A podcast or 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.

VoIP

• VoIP (voice over IP) is an IP telephony term for a set of facilities used to manage the delivery of voice information over the Internet.

Wiki

• A wiki (sometimes spelled "Wiki") is a server program that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site.

Social Networking

• A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections.

WWW

• all the resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

HTML

• HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a language to specify the structure of documents for retrieval across the Internet using browser programs of the WorldWideWeb.

Web Feed

• A web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

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