Basic Internet Vocabulary
These are some general words related
to the Internet and computers. You should be at least familiar with
all of them.
- Antivirus
- Bandwidth
- Blog
- Broadband
- Byte
- Code
- Cookie
- Cyberspace
- Domain Name
- Download
- Extension (.htm, .pdf, .docx, .jpg, .mp3 -> similar to "file
format")
- FAQ -- (Frequently Asked Questions)
- File format
- Firewall
- FTP -- (File Transfer Protocol)
- Home Page (or Homepage)
- HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
- HTTP -- (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)
- Hypertext
- IMAP -- (Internet Message Access Protocol)
- IP Number -- (Internet Protocol Number)
- ISP -- (Internet Service Provider)
- IT -- (Information Technology)
- Java
- Java Script
- LAN -- (Local Area Network)
- Link
- Linux
- Login
- Netiquette
- Network
- Open Source Software
- Password (case sensitive)
- PDF -- (Portable Document Format)
- Ping
- Podcasting or pod-casting
- Portal
- Posting (to post)
- Proxy Server
- Root kit
- Router
- RSS -- (Rich Site Summary or RDF Site Summary or Real Simple
Syndication)
- Search Engine
- Security Certificate
- SEO -- (Search Engine Optimization)
- Server
- Social networking
- Spam (to spam)
- Spyware
- Trojan
- Unix
- Upload
- URL -- (Uniform Resource Locator)
- VOIP -- (Voice Over IP)
- WAN -- (Wide Area Network)
- Web
- Web 2.0
- Web page
- Website
- Wi-Fi -- (Wireless Fidelity)
- Wiki
- WWW -- (World Wide Web)
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Updated
29.07.11 |