Automating Google Workspace (GWS) & more with Apps Script
Common Online Terminologies
1. Morante, Kirstine Joy L.
BS Food Technology – University of Santo Tomas
COMMON ONLINE TERMS
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2. EMAIL
Electronic Mail
• The transmission of
messages over
communications
networks.
• The messages can be
notes entered from
the keyboard or electronic
files stored on disk.
3. A collaborative Web site comprises the
perpetual collective work of many
authors.
Similar to a blog in structure and logic,
a wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or
modify content that has been placed on
the Web site using a browser interface,
including the work of previous authors.
The term wiki refers to either the Web
site or the software used to create the
site.
Wiki
Means ”quick” in Hawaiian
4. • To mark a document or a
specific place in a
document for later
retrieval. Nearly all Web
Browsers support a
bookmarking feature that
lets you save the address
(URL) of a Web page so
that you can easily re-visit
the page at a later time.
Social Bookmarking
• A marker or address that
identifies a document or a
specific place in a
document.
5. HyperText Markup Language
HTML
The authoring language used to
create documents on the World Wide
Web
HTML defines the structure and layout
of a Web document by using a variety
of tags and attributes.
The correct structure for an HTML document
starts with <HTML><HEAD>(enter here what
document is about)<BODY> and ends with
</BODY></HTML>.
All the information you'd like to include
in your Web page fits in between the
<BODY> and </BODY> tags.
6. Podcast
• With podcasting
however, you have a set
of subscriptions that are
checked regularly for
updates and instead of
reading the feeds on
your computer screen,
you listen to the new
content on on your
device.
• The format used for
podcasting is RSS 2.0
with enclosures.
• The podcasting
enclosures refer to all
binary (non-text)
downloads.
7. VolP
• VoIP is basically a telephone connection over the Internet.
• The data is sent digitally, 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.
Voice over Internet Protocol
8. Online Chat
Online – turned on and connected
Users are considered online when they are
connected to a computer service through
a modem. That is, they are actually on the
line.
Chat – real-time communication between two
users via computer. Once a chat has been
initiated, either user can enter text by typing
on the keyboard and the entered text will
appear on the other user’s monitor.
9. Precedes URL address is an indication
that the Web address exists on the vast
network of the World Wide Web.
Web sites, especially dynamic Web
Sites, that handle large amounts
of traffic often need more than one
server to accommodate the many
requests they receive as one server
often cannot handle the multitude of
requests.
WWW
World Wide Web
10. Web Log
BLOG
A blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly
accessible personal journal for an individual.
Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the
personality of the author.
Blogger – a person who blogs
11. Streaming
• A technique for transferring data so that it can be processed as a
steady and continuous stream.
• Streaming technologies are becoming increasingly important with
the growth of the Internet because most users do not have fast
enough access to download large multimedia files quickly.
• With streaming, the client browser or plug-in can start displaying the
data before the entire file has been transmitted.
12. Social Networking
Online – turned on and connected
Users are considered online when they are
connected to a computer service through
a modem. That is, they are actually on the
line.
Chat – real-time communication between two
users via computer. Once a chat has been
initiated, either user can enter text by typing
on the keyboard and the entered text will
appear on the other user’s monitor.
13. Uniform Resource Locator
URL
The global address or documents and
other resources on the World Wide
Web
First part = protocol identifier =
indicates what protocol to use.
Second part = resource name = specifies the IP
address or the domain name where the resource
is located
The protocol identifier and resource
name are separated by a colon and
two forward slashes.
14. Web Feed
A Web document that is a shortened version
of a Web page that has been created for
syndication.
Feeds usually end in .xml or .rss.
