COMMON ONLINE
TERMINOLOGIES
Created By: Mark Jeffrey Dela Cruz Del Monte

1st Year 1E2
COMP1A
College of Education
University of Santo Tomas
E-MAIL
• Also known as Electronic Mail
• Referred as e-mail or email since 1993
• Is a method of exchanging digital messages from an
author to one or more recipients
• Its discovery replaced the so called “snailmail”
WIKI
• Usually a web application to add, modify or delete
information of a certain topic or term.
• Wikipedia is one of the websites where info can be
attained and shared
Ward Cunningham,
inventor of the wiki
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
 A social bookmarking service is a
centralized online service which enables
users to add, annotate, edit, and

share bookmarks of web documents.
 Social bookmarking and file sharing are
two different topics.
HTML
 Also known as HyperText Markup
Language.
 It is the main markup language for

creating web pages and other information
that can be displayed in a web browser.

Logo of HTML 5
PODCAST
 Also known as netcast.
 Digital medium consisting of an episodic series of audio, video,
PDF or ePub files.
VOIP
 Also known as Voice over Internet Protocol.
 A methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of
voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet

Protocol (IP) networks such as internet.
ONLINE CHAT
 A kind of communication in which the internet is involved for
having chats.
 Also, it is a kind of communication over the internet that offers a

real time transmission of text messages from the sender to the
receiver
WWW
 Also known as the world wide web, w3 or the web.
 Via internet, it is a system of interlinked hypertext documents
 Using a web browser, one can view web pages that contain

information like text, images, videos and other multimedia and
navigate between them via hyperlinks.
STREAMING
 It is the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium
itself.
 Also known as media streaming

 It is a technique that transfers data to which that it can be
processed as a steady and continuous stream.
BLOG
 It is also considered as a truncation of the expression web log.
 A discussion or a site which is informational and is published on
the world wide web that consists of post/ discrete entries. These post

are typically displayed in reverse chronological order (means that the
most recent post appears first).
SOCIAL NETWORKING
 It is a method among people who communicate, share interests,
activities, backgrounds or real life connections.
 Websites are commonly used in this method.

 The websites are called social sites where people share their
thoughts, opinions, views, etc. to the world.
URL
 Also called as uniform resource locator, web address or HTTP.
 It is a specific character string that consists a reference to a specific
resource.

 It is usually typed on the top inside the address bar.
WEB FEED
 Also known as a news feed.
 Sometimes referred as a syndicated feed.
 A collection of these web feeds that is accessible in one spot is

known as a aggregation.
 A data format used for providing people or users with continuous
updated content.
REFERENCES
 Some meanings taken from http://www.wikipedia.org/
 Others are either created, rephrased or merely thought by creator.
 Pictures taken from Google.com.

Activity 11 common online terminologies

  • 1.
    COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIES Created By:Mark Jeffrey Dela Cruz Del Monte 1st Year 1E2 COMP1A College of Education University of Santo Tomas
  • 2.
    E-MAIL • Also knownas Electronic Mail • Referred as e-mail or email since 1993 • Is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients • Its discovery replaced the so called “snailmail”
  • 3.
    WIKI • Usually aweb application to add, modify or delete information of a certain topic or term. • Wikipedia is one of the websites where info can be attained and shared Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki
  • 4.
    SOCIAL BOOKMARKING  Asocial bookmarking service is a centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents.  Social bookmarking and file sharing are two different topics.
  • 5.
    HTML  Also knownas HyperText Markup Language.  It is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser. Logo of HTML 5
  • 6.
    PODCAST  Also knownas netcast.  Digital medium consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF or ePub files.
  • 7.
    VOIP  Also knownas Voice over Internet Protocol.  A methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks such as internet.
  • 8.
    ONLINE CHAT  Akind of communication in which the internet is involved for having chats.  Also, it is a kind of communication over the internet that offers a real time transmission of text messages from the sender to the receiver
  • 9.
    WWW  Also knownas the world wide web, w3 or the web.  Via internet, it is a system of interlinked hypertext documents  Using a web browser, one can view web pages that contain information like text, images, videos and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.
  • 10.
    STREAMING  It isthe delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself.  Also known as media streaming  It is a technique that transfers data to which that it can be processed as a steady and continuous stream.
  • 11.
    BLOG  It isalso considered as a truncation of the expression web log.  A discussion or a site which is informational and is published on the world wide web that consists of post/ discrete entries. These post are typically displayed in reverse chronological order (means that the most recent post appears first).
  • 12.
    SOCIAL NETWORKING  Itis a method among people who communicate, share interests, activities, backgrounds or real life connections.  Websites are commonly used in this method.  The websites are called social sites where people share their thoughts, opinions, views, etc. to the world.
  • 13.
    URL  Also calledas uniform resource locator, web address or HTTP.  It is a specific character string that consists a reference to a specific resource.  It is usually typed on the top inside the address bar.
  • 14.
    WEB FEED  Alsoknown as a news feed.  Sometimes referred as a syndicated feed.  A collection of these web feeds that is accessible in one spot is known as a aggregation.  A data format used for providing people or users with continuous updated content.
  • 15.
    REFERENCES  Some meaningstaken from http://www.wikipedia.org/  Others are either created, rephrased or merely thought by creator.  Pictures taken from Google.com.