Definition of Internet Terms

This is a powerpoint presentation about the different terms in the internet and their respective meanings

1. Common Terms in the Internet Henry Raphael Buban Bachelor of Secondary Education University of Santo Tomas

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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”. Source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

6. 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

7. 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. Sources en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Voice_over_IP

8. 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

9. WWW www means world wide web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/www

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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