Vocabulary VI: Definitions 🍁Fall🍁

1. 2.0: used to refer to a slightly improved or different form of something         *Web 2.0: advanced ways of using the Internet, for example ways of sharing information using blogs and wikis

2. Blog: (a) personal website or online journal (b) an online journal where people can post entries about their experiences

3. Meme: a piece of video, a joke, or something else that spreads quickly on the Internet

4. Internet: the network of computer systems that allows computer users around the world to exchange information

5. Open Source: refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge

6. URL(Uniform/Universe Resource Locator): the Internet address of a website or the address of a web page on the world wide web

7. Viral: relating to or involving an image, video, piece of information, advertisement, etc, that is circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another

8. Virus: (a) a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer (b) a set of instructions secretly put into a computer, usually spread through emails, which can corrupt the system or destroy information stored on the computer

9. Website: a place on the Internet where you can find information about something, especially a particular organization

10. Wiki: (a) a website with information that users can change or add things to (b) a webpage, or a series of webpages, which can be written or changed by the people who use it

11. WWW: abbreviation for WORLD WIDE WEB, used in the address of some web pages.

*Not on vocabulary list, but wanted to add.