Glossary of Internet-related terms

This is a Glossary of Internet Terminology; words pertaining to Internet Technology, a subset of Computer Science.^[1]

A–M

N–Z

noob

A new or inexperienced person, someone who does not know the rules of a website, or has only recently joined. A wordplay on newbie.

phishing

The act of attempting to obtain private or sensitive information such as user names, passwords and credit card information through the use of fake emails from trustworthy sites.

PHP

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, the coding language to create interactive web pages and so forth.

POP3

Protocol to retrieve email.

Redditor

A person who scours the Internet for media and posts the findings on the Reddit website. Once posted, other members can upvote or downvote the material based on their evaluation of it.

SMTP

Protocol to send email.

spamming

the act of sending unsolicited email or posting many useless messages in a forum website.

Troll

someone who attempts to gain infamy in chat or on forums by use of but not limited to links to disturbing items, bashing (fighting, put down) with others, copying or mimicking other's real posts into perverted messages.

Tweet

a small message sent by a user of the website Twitter.

Unfriend

The act of removing someone from a list of friends on social networking profiles of Facebook, MySpace or Bebo. It is also the Oxford dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year.

Win

Similar to "leet", "win" expresses an ability to perform an otherwise impossible act through pure luck or practice, or an object or statement that constitutes an amusing or amazing element.

YouTuber

a person who produces video content for the video-sharing site YouTube.

See also

• Internet portal
• Language portal

• Internet linguistics
• Internet slang
• Jargon File