Common Online Terminologies

Raf Amadeo E. Rosales

• One way to communicate using one computer sending a message from one computer to another.

• A method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.

• In 1971 the first ARPANET email was sent

• is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order.

• First known as weblog by Jorn Barger In 1997.• The term “blog” was used by Peter Merholz.

• Any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver.

• The first online chat system was called Talkomatic, created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1974 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois.

• The first dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980

• Uniform Resource Locator(URL) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource.

• The Uniform Resource Locator was standardized in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee.

• A URL is a URI that, in addition to identifying a web resource, provides a means of locating the resource by describing its "primary access mechanism (e.g., its network location)".

• a centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents.

• originated in around April 1996 with the launch of itList

• Founded in 2003, Delicious (then called del.icio.us) pioneered tagging and coined the term social bookmarking.

• Is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.

• In the early 1920s, George O. Squier was granted patents for a system for the transmission and distribution of signals over electrical lines which was the technical basis for what later became Muzak, a technology streaming continuous music to commercial customers without the use of radio.

• Also known as netcast is 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.

• a technique for transferring data.• Streaming means listening to music or watching

video in ‘real time’, instead of downloading a file to your computer and watching it later.

•  is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voiccommunications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.

• The term Internet telephony specifically refers to the provisioning of communications services (voice, fax, SMS, voice-messaging) over the public Internet, rather than via the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

• Is a web application which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others. 

• WikiWikiWeb was the first wiki. Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in Portland, Oregon, in 1994, and installed it on the Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995.

•  It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the "Wiki Wiki Shuttle" bus that runs between the airport's terminals.

• Is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

• Also known or most commonly known as The Web• In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal

that referenced ENQUIRE, a database and software project he had built in 1980, and described a more elaborate information management system.

• With help from Robert Cailliau, he published a more formal proposal (on 12 November 1990) to build a "Hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb"

• A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a set of the dyadic ties between these actors.

•  is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who share interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.

• Social networking websites function like an online community of internet users.

• is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

• In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system. Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in the later 1990.

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

• Is a document (often XML-based) whose discrete content items include web links to the source of the content.

• Blogs and News websites are commonly sources of Web Feeds.

• Feeds are more often subscribed to directly by users with aggregators or feed readers.

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