Common Online Terminologies

Ray Darryl S. MordidoBachelor in Secondary Education

University of Santo Tomas

We commonly use words like these on the internet:

1. Email2. Wiki3. Social Bookmarking4. HTML5. Podcast6. VoIP7. Online Chat8. WWW9. Streaming10.Blog11.Social Networking12.URL13.Web Feed

EMAIL

Short term for Electronic Mail. It is a method of exchanging digital messages between an individual or group of individuals.

It may contain images ,files ,and other attachments depending on how will you use it.

It can be used through the use of internet or other communication networks. • The first e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.

WIKI The first wiki was created in 1995 for the Portland Pattern Repository and is known to be the simplest online database that could possibly work.

It is an open editing database allowing any user to add and update information, create new pages, etc. all over the Internet. The community then decides what information is good or what information is bad.

"Wiki" (pronounced [ˈ witi] or [ˈ viti]) is a Hawaiian word meaning "fast" or "quick".

SOCIALBOOMARKING

 Allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents.

Useful when accessing consolidated sets of bookmarks from various computers.

It can also be used in organizing large number of bookmarks and sharing bookmarks to others.

HTML

Developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.

Short for HyperText Markup Language. It is a language used to create electronic documents, especially pages on the World Wide Web that contain connections called hyperlinks to other pages.

Used in formatting online pages through the use of codes to show texts and images in an easy to read format.

PODCAST

Alternatively referred to as an audioblog.

It is an audio broadcast that is often listened to on a computer or smartphones that we have nowadays.

VOIP VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) is an internet protocol that allows users to make calls through the use of internet instead of using telephones.

Cheaper than using telephones but sometimes at a lower audio quality.

VoIP also is referred to as Internet telephony, IP telephony, or Voice over the Internet (VOI).

ONLINECHAT

 May refer to any kind of communication over the internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver.

It can be done by one-on-one chat or one-to-many group chat using direct text-based or video-based (webcams).

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.

WWW

WWW(World Wide Web) also called web is a graphical interface for the Internet that was first introduced to the public on August 6,1991 by Tim Berners-Lee.

Is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.

Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and Berners-Lee finished the first website in December of that year. Berners-Lee posted the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup on 7 August 1991.

STREAMING

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

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.

BLOG

A weblog or blog, is a listing of text, images, or other objects that are arranged in a chronological order that first started appearing in 1998.

A Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog", was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.

SOCIAL NETWORKI

NG  Alternatively referred to as a virtual community or profile site, a social network is a web site on the internet that brings people together in a central location to talk, share ideas, share interests, make new friends, etc.

This type of collaboration and sharing of data is often referred to as social media.

Unlike traditional media that is often created by no more than 10 people, social media sites contain content that has been created by hundreds or even millions of different people.

The term itself was coined in 1954 by J. A. Barnes.

URL  URL(Uniform Resource Locator) also known as web address is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource.

It is a form of URI and is a standardized naming convention for addressing documents accessible over the Internet or Intranet.

It is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

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

A web feed is a document (often XML-based) whose discrete content items include web links to the source of the content. News websites and blogs are common sources for web feeds, but feeds are also used to deliver structured information ranging from weather data to top-ten lists of hit tunes to search results. The two main web feed formats are RSS and Atom.

Online terminologies are crucially important in today’s generation. One of the most critical changes that has to be learned by people is about the internet. And because of that, online terminologies must be familiar to people today in order to cope up with our changing environment. That is also why we should be intellectually aware of the cyber world. The more we know about this aspects, the more we see the advantages and faults of our world today.

ADVANTAGE IS NOT HOW POWERFUL YOU ARE. IT IS THE WORDS THAT YOU CAN USE AS WEAPONS.

Thank you!