Common Online Terminologies

Romana E. AustriaBachelor of Secondary Education

University of Santo Tomas

Email• Electronic Mail•  the transmission

of messages over communication networks.

Wiki• Server program that

allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site. 

• Comes from “wikiwiki” meaning fast in Hawaiian language.

• The simplest wiki programs allow users to create and edit content

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. • Because your bookmarks are online, you

can easily share them with friends.

HTML• Hypertext Mark-up

Language•  A language to

specify the structure of documents for retrieval across the Internet using browser programs of the World Wide Web.

Podcast• The word “podcasting” is

a portmanteau combining the words “broadcasting” and “iPod.”

• Podcasts are digital media files (most often audio, but they can be video as well), which are produced in a series.

• The most popular format of a podcast is MP3.

VoIP• Voice over Internet

Protocol• It is another way of

making phone calls, with the difference of making the calls cheaper or completely free.

Online Chat• communication

over the Internet• real-time

transmission of text messages from sender to receiver

WWW• World Wide Web•  all the resources and

users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

•  universe of network-accessible information, an embodiment of human knowledge.

Streaming• Method of relaying

data (esp. video and audio material) over a computer network as a steady continuous stream.

• Allowing playback to proceed while subsequent data is being received.

Blog• a personal website

or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis.

• your best bet for a voice among the online crowd.

Social Networking

•  a website that allows people with similar interests to come together and share information, photos and videos. 

• Those who engage on social network sites as a personal endeavour interact by using various forms of media to discuss their lives and interests.

URL• Uniform Resource

Locator• a specific character

string that constitutes a reference to a resource.

• URL of a web page is displayed on top inside an address bar.

Web Feed• a data format used

for providing users with frequently updated content. 

• a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. 

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