Common Online

Terminologies

Aiera Therese R. VasquezBachelor of Elementary Education

Major in Preschool EducationUniversity of Santo Tomas

Short for electronic mail, e-mail or email is text messages that may contain files, images, or other attachments sent through a network to a specified individual or group of individuals. The first e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. By 1996, more electronic mail was being sent than postal mail. Below is an example and breakdown of an Internet e-mail address.

EMAIL

WIKIA wiki is usually a web application which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others. Text is usually written using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor. While a wiki is a type of content management system, it differs from a blog or most other such systems in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.

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.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

HTMLShort for HyperText Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. HTML is similar to SGML, although it is not a strict subset.

PODCASTA 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. The word is a neologism and portmanteau derived from "broadcast" and

"pod" from the success of the iPod, as audio podcasts are often listened to on portable

media players.

ONLINE CHATOnline chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver. Chat messages are generally short in order to enable other participants to respond quickly. Thereby, a feeling similar to a spoken conversation is created, which distinguishes chatting from other text-based online communication forms such as Internet forums and email.

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a

provider. Its verb form, "to stream", refers to the process of delivering media

in this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium rather

than the medium itself.

WWW

STREAMING

World Wide Web: A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted

documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files.

This means you can jump from one document to another simply by clicking

on hot spots. Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web.

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 ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).

BLOG

Voice-over internet protocol: a system for converting analogue

signals to digital so that telephone calls may be made over the

internet.

VoLP

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. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his social links, and a variety of

additional services. Social networking is web-based services that allow individuals to create a public profile, to create a list of users with whom to share connection, and view and cross the connections within the system.

SOCIAL NETWORK

A uniform resource locator, abbreviated as URL (also known as web address, particularly when used with HTTP), is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource. In most web browsers, the URL of a web page is displayed on top inside an address bar.

URL

WEB FEED

A web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator. A web

feed is also sometimes referred to as a syndicated feed.

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