Common Online terminologies

DISCOVERINGONLINE TERMINOLOGY

• Electronic Mail• Email is like sending a letter, only you

send the message over the internet and it gets to the other person's email account within seconds.

• If you have an email address, you can email anyone else who has an email address, including government agencies and lots of different kinds of businesses.

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• A personal website which can be used as a voice among the online crowd.

• It can serve as your wall of ideas. You can easily customize its features and put stuffs that you wanted to post.

• It can serve as your online diary which can be a good tool to inspire others

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ONLINE CHAT

• It is a kind of communication over the internet that offers real-time transmission of text-based messages from the sender to a receiver. (wikipedia)

URL• Uniform Resource Locator• A URL is the address of a specific Web site

or file on the Internet. It cannot have spaces or certain other characters and uses forward slashes to denote different directories. A URL is the address of a specific Web site or file on the Internet. It cannot have spaces or certain other characters and uses forward slashes to denote different directories

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VoIP• Stands for "Voice Over Internet Protocol," and is

often pronounced "voip." VoIP is basically a telephone connection over the Internet. The data is sentdigitally, using the Internet Protocol (IP) instead of analog telephone lines. This allows people to talk to one another long-distance and around the world without having to pay long distance or international phone charges.

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- Social media is the broad term for any online tool that enables users to interact with thousands of other users. Instant messaging and chatting are common forms of social media, as are blogs with comments, discussion forums, video-sharing and photo-sharing websites. Facebook.com and MySpace.com are very large social media sites, as are YouTube.com and Digg.com.

- Reaching the world nowadays seem possible with social media.

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SOCIAL NETWORKING

• Stands for "World Wide Web." It is important to know that this is not a synonym for the Internet. The World Wide Web, or just "the Web," as ordinary people call it, is a subset of the Internet. The Web consists of pages that can be accessed using a Web browser. The Internet is the actual network of networks where all the information resides. Things like Telnet, FTP, Internet gaming, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), and e-mail are all part of the Internet, but are not part of the World Wide Web. The Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the method used to transfer Web pages to your computer. With hypertext, a word or phrase can contain a link to another Web site. All Web pages are written in the hyper-text markup language (HTML), which works in conjunction with HTTP.

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