This document defines and summarizes common internet terms like email, wiki, social bookmarking, HTML, podcast, VoIP, online chat, WWW, streaming, blog, social networking, URL, and web feed. Email allows sending messages through websites like Yahoo Mail and Google Mail. A wiki allows collaborative editing of web content. Social bookmarking services enable users to bookmark and share web pages. HTML is the markup language used to create web pages. A podcast is a digital audio file subscribed to and downloaded for listening. VoIP delivers voice calls over the internet. Online chat provides real-time text messaging. The WWW is a system of hyperlinked documents on the internet. Streaming delivers multimedia continuously during playback. A blog is

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