COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIESRina Mercado

Bachelor of Secondary Education1E2

University of Santo Tomas

Electronic mail E-MAIL

It is a system for sending and receiving

messages electronically over a computer network,

as between personal computers.

WIKI

It is a server program that allows users to

collaborate in forming the content of a Web

site.

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.

HyperText Mark-up Language HTML

It is the main mark-up language for creating web

pages and other information that can be

displayed in a web browser.

PODCAST

It 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.

It is a system used to convert analogue signals

to digital so that telephone calls may be

made over the internet.

Voice-over Internet Protocol VOIP

It may refer to any kind of communication over

the Internet that offers a real-time transmission

of text messages from sender to receiver.

ONLINE CHAT

It is a system of interlinked hypertext

documents accessed via the Internet. With a web

browser, one can view web pages that may contain

text, images, videos, and other multimedia

and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

World Wide Web WWW

It is a technique for transferring data so that it can be processed as a

steady and continuous stream. With streaming,

the client browser or plug-in can start

displaying the data before the entire file has been transmitted.

STREAMING

It 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

A social networking service is an online

service, platform, or site that focuses on

facilitating the building of social networks or

social relations among people who, for example,

share interests, activities, backgrounds,

or real-life connections.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

It is the global address of documents and

other resources on the World Wide Web.

Uniform Resource Locator URL

It 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.

WEB FEED

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