13 Common Online Terminologies

Ma. Belinda N. GedariaBachelor of Science in Elementary Education

Major in Pre-School EducationUniversity of Santo Tomas

• Short for Electronic Mail• Similar to a letter but it is online. You can

attach pictures and other files that you can send into a multiple recipient.

Email

Wikipedia

• Launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001.

• It is an online website where you can find meanings and history of things or phenomenon and biographies of popular people.

• It is similar into an Encyclopedia.

Social Bookmarking

• It’s like saving your favorite sites on your browser.• If you wish to look at others bookmark then you

may. You can check it because as it says its “social”.

HTML

• Developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990• Known as the HyperText Markup Language• "hidden" code that helps us communicate

with others on the World Wide Web (WWW).

Podcast• You can subscribe to a series of files or podcast.• It can be audio or video.• You can subscribe if you have a software of podcatcher.

VoIP

• Known as Voice over Internet Protocol• Needed of internet connection to make a

call to your friends or family.• It’s a phone service on the internet.

Online Chat

• Must need an internet connection.• Let you talked to other people and have

their respond quickly.

WWW

• Known as World Wide Web• This is the hypertext of documents

accessed via internet.

Streaming• This can be audio, video, graphic

presentations, files etc.• It is a process of transferring data or files.

Blog

• Published work or discussion on the internet.

• Expression or Opinion of other people based on a topic.

Social Networking

• It is a website/s where you can search the profile of your family and friends or even the people whom do you haven’t known.

• Today’s most common aspect on finding people of your common interests.

URL

• Known as the Uniform Resource Locator.• Display on the upper side of a address bar.• It is a reference to a resources.

Web Feed

• Also known as News Feed.• It is a data format for allowing users to

know if there’s a frequent updated data.

Sources:

http://www.affilorama.com/internet101/social-bookmarkinghttp://www.goodellgroup.com/tutorial/chapter1.htmlhttp://podcasting.about.com/od/basics101/a/whatis.htmhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Webhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locatorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed