Tuesday, October 11, 2016

vocab 10/11/16

Meme: an element of culture passed from one individual to another especially through imitation
Ex: Cultures that live on through memes spread far and wide from its origin.

Virus: A piece of code which is capable. of copying itself and has detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data
Ex: A computer virus can spread and infect other computers.

Viral: An image, video or piece of information that circulates rapidly and widely from one internet user to another.
Ex: The video went viral and was seen by millions

Blog: (weblog) site regularly updated by a user or a group of people
Ex: She regularly contributes a blog to the magazine's website

Wiki: website that allows anyone to edit content
Ex: many contribute to the information posted on Wikipedia

URL: protocol for specifying addresses on the internet
Ex: I will send you a URL of all my work through email

Website: a connected group of pages on the world wide web
Ex: Your grades can be found on the Aeries website

Www: (world wide web) a collection of internet networks available across the world
Ex: My website can be reached by searching the worlwide web.

Internet: local are connection of internet servers
Ex: the internet is often used to look up information on anything you'd like to know about.

2.0: an improved version of something
Ex: the world wide web was the internet 2.0

Open source: customization of source code is encouraged
Ex: open source software is used to be more useful and error free in the long run




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