Basic Internet Vocabulary

    These are some general words related to the Internet and computers. You should be at least familiar with all of them.

    1. Antivirus
       
    2. Bandwidth
       
    3. Blog
       
    4. Broadband
       
    5. Byte
       
    6. Code
       
    7. Cookie
       
    8. Cyberspace
       
    9. Domain Name
       
    10. Download
       
    11. Extension (.htm, .pdf, .docx, .jpg, .mp3 -> similar to "file format")
       
    12. FAQ -- (Frequently Asked Questions)
       
    13. File format
       
    14. Firewall
       
    15. FTP -- (File Transfer Protocol)
       
    16. Home Page (or Homepage)
       
    17. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
       
    18. HTTP -- (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)
       
    19. Hypertext
       
    20. IMAP -- (Internet Message Access Protocol)
       
    21. IP Number -- (Internet Protocol Number)
       
    22. ISP -- (Internet Service Provider)
       
    23. IT -- (Information Technology)
       
    24. Java
       
    25. Java Script
       
    26. LAN -- (Local Area Network)
       
    27. Link
       
    28. Linux
       
    29. Login
       
    30. Netiquette
       
    31. Network
       
    32. Open Source Software
       
    33. Password (case sensitive)
       
    34. PDF -- (Portable Document Format)
       
    35. Ping
       
    36. Podcasting or pod-casting
       
    37. Portal
       
    38. Posting (to post)
       
    39. Proxy Server
       
    40. Root kit
       
    41. Router
       
    42. RSS -- (Rich Site Summary or RDF Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication)
       
    43. Search Engine
       
    44. Security Certificate
       
    45. SEO -- (Search Engine Optimization)
       
    46. Server
       
    47. Social networking
       
    48. Spam (to spam)
       
    49. Spyware
       
    50. Trojan
       
    51. Unix
       
    52. Upload
       
    53. URL -- (Uniform Resource Locator)
       
    54. VOIP -- (Voice Over IP)
       
    55. WAN -- (Wide Area Network)
       
    56. Web
       
    57. Web 2.0
       
    58. Web page
       
    59. Website
       
    60. Wi-Fi -- (Wireless Fidelity)
       
    61. Wiki
       
    62. WWW -- (World Wide Web)

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    Updated 29.07.11