Common Online Terminologies

Ma. Pamela S. DequiñaBachelor Of Secondary EducationUniversity of Santo Tomas

Email Email or electronic mail are text messages that may

contain files, images and other attachments it is send through a network of specified individuals or group of individuals.

Blog A journal that is available on the web. Posting on a Blog are almost always arrange in

chronological order. The activity of updating the blog is called blogging and

someone who keeps a blog is called a blogger.

Online ChatOnline Chat This allows you to send messages back and forth

immediately to one another through the use of internet connection

Online chat doesn’t cause you anything extra, as long as you have an internet connection

Social Bookmarking It is tagging a website and saving it . Since it is online you are able to send it to

your friends You can also look for other interesting sites

that other people have tag.

URL Uniform Resource Locator A global address of documents and other

resources on the world wide web

Streaming Streaming means listening to music or watching a

video “real time” There is no file to download just a continuous

stream of data

Podcast A form of audio broadcasting on the internet As long as you have some way to play music on your

computer you will be able to listen to Podcast.

VoIP Voice Over Internet Protocol It can turn a standard internet connection into a

way to place free phone calls

WIKI A Web application which allows people to add,

modify or delete content in collaboration with others.

It differs from a blog because the content is created without any defined owner or leader.

Social Networking Websites function like an online community of internet

users Once you granted access to the social networking site you

will be able to socialize with other people

WWW World Wide Web Consist of all public Web sites connected to the

Internet worldwide

HTML Hyper Text Markup Language HTML contains HTML tags and plain text HTML documents are also called web pages

Web Feed A data format used for providing users with

frequently updated content Can help us in staying up to date with the

content of a large number of sites

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