Common Terms in the InternetHenry Raphael BubanBachelor of Secondary EducationUniversity of Santo Tomas

Email An email is short for electronic mail. It’s a

convenient way to send messages through websites. Examples of these are Yahoo Mail, Google Mail and Rocket Mail

Wiki is usually a web application which

allows people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Social Bookmarking A social

bookmarking service is a centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web

Source:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Bookmarking

HTML HTML or HyperText

Markup Language is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

This is usually encoded in “Notepad”.

Sourceen.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

Podcast 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

Sources:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

VoIP is a methodology and group of

technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.

Sourcesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_IP

Online Chat Online chat may refer to any kind of

communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver

Sources:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Chat

WWW www means world wide web is a system of interlinked hypertext

documents accessed via the Internet.

Sources:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/www

Streaming 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.

Sources:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media

Blog 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).

Sources:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blog

Social Networking 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

Sources:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Networking_service

URL 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

Sources:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator

Web feed data format used for providing users

with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it.

Sources:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/web_feed