This document defines common online terminology:
- Email allows sending, receiving, and storing messages and the first was sent via ARPANET in 1971.
- Wiki was invented by Ward Cunningham as "the simplest online database that could possibly work" and wiki means "fast" in Hawaiian.
- HTML is the markup language used for web pages and uses tags like <html> within content.
- Podcasts and netcasts are digital audio files available online for downloading and listening, often in a series.
- Social bookmarking services allow users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks and tags since 1996.