Word around the net

You probably aren’t reading European newspapers, particularly their financial sections, but they’re panicking a bit this week. The Euro dropped significantly against the dollar just after Christmas and has continued downhill since then. Its almost as if they were all hanging on for dear life trying to make it past the holidays and have finally given up. Given how emasculated the great states of Europe have become, war isn’t likely, but with how big the EU economy is, a collapse there will tip the US over the edge and I fear the whole world will see a depression on a scale that will make the Dark Ages seem familiar. Pray we make it through somehow without this happening, for the sake of the poorest and weakest among us.

News that will surprise no one who has been through a recent world disaster: the US leads the world in charitable giving. You’d expect the US to do well, since it is the richest nation on earth, but the way people talk about America, you would never expect it to be first, but as an American, I knew it was true. Every time there was a big disaster under President Bush, the usual suspects complained that other nations gave more money than the US, but what they really meant was other nations’ governments gave more. The US people are who are generous. The better the economy and lower the taxes, the more US citizens give to charity, too.

Climaquiddick II emails keep being revealed. One has Michael “Piltdown” Mann passing on some code to an alarmist ally, cautioning them to “not let it fall in the wrong hands.” Because nothing says good science like keeping your work hidden and secret.

Shocking news out of Jerusalem: there’s a greater push to kidnap Israeli Soldiers after they gave a thousand prisoners away to get one free. Its almost as if rewarding behavior results in more of it, or something.

Attorney General Holder is quite put out by deaths caused by illegal guns. No, not Fast & Furious guns walked to drug gangs deliberately by the US Justice Department, he’s still denying that. This is about pushback. The gun control effort of Gunwalker has boomeranged, so the left is trying to sell a narrative about dangerous guns again.

Another pattern in the Climaquiddick II emails is the experts keep privately admitting to each other that they are confused, uncertain, or have too little data to make conclusions which in public they insist are absolute, certain, finished, and completely reliable. For example, this from Phil Jones, former head of ACU:

Bottom line – their is no way the MWP (whenever it was) was as warm globally as the last 20 years. There is also no way a whole decade in the LIA period was more than 1 deg C on a global basis cooler than the 1961-90 mean. This is all gut feeling, no science…

He also states that the Hockey Stick graph is at the very least a “sloppy piece of work.”

Part of this pushback effort is a recent New York Times piece by Michael Luo that tried to portray concealed carry licensee as dangerous gun wielding maniacs. While its unfortunately true that 200 CCL holders were convicted for felonies over a five year period in New York City, there are 240,000 people who are licensed to hold a gun in that city alone, or .08% of their numbers convicted. That’s not exactly a trend, its not even statistically significant. Instapundit has even more problems with the article on his site.

Kevin D. Williamson at National Review Online has a disturbingly informative piece up about the Obama administration’s crony ties with big finance and the deals made behind the scenes. He lists all the names of the financial corporate stooges working in the White House:

Obama’s first National Economic Council director, Lawrence Summers (of hedge-fund giant D. E. Shaw and venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz), who has had some nice paydays courtesy of Lehman Bros., JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup. Let’s hear it for Citigroup’s Michael Froman, deputy assistant to the president and deputy national-security adviser for international economic affairs, for Hartford Financial’s Neal Wolin, deputy Treasury secretary, for JPMorgan’s William Daley, Obama’s chief of staff, and for his predecessor, Rahm Emanuel of Wasserstein Perella. Let’s hear it for Fannie Mae’s Tom Donilon, national-security adviser. (No, seriously: One of the luminous interstellar geniuses who brought Fannie Mae to its current aphotic state of affairs, upside down to the tune of trillions of dollars, is running national security, and the former director of the White House Military Office, Louis Caldera, was on the board of IndyMac when it finally went toes up — sleep tight, America!) And, lest we forget, let’s have three big, sloppy cheers for economic-transition team leaders Robert Rubin (Goldman Sachs, Citigroup) and folksy tax enthusiast/ghoulish billionaire vulture Warren Buffett.

And that doesn’t include Geithner, who cut special deals for major finance corporations both before and after becoming Treasury Secretary. He was working with these cronies to help them for both Bush and Obama. I don’t think President Obama is deliberately in bed with these guys, other than for campaign finance. I think he’s just too ignorant and easily gulled and they have been pulling quick ones on him for years. Not exactly presidential material.

Although he wasn’t trying to, an alarmist climate scientist named Rahmsdorf proved that the natural variability of climate is greater than presumed “forcing” by CO2 concentrations, almost as if some vast external energy source, perhaps as big as the sun, is the primary driver of climate.

Solyndra is the focus of a recent Washington Post article about how deeply and totally politics went into the loan guarantees and grants given the failing company from Stimulus dollars. Again, I suspect this has more to do with a gullible and credulous Obama administration being gamed by slick corporate guys than any deliberate corruption – I think the president really thought this was a smart idea that would transform the economy.

ACORN raises its ugly head once more. This time its voter fraud convictions in New York State. This one is about absentee ballot fraud (mail in voting – the only kind allowed in Oregon).

One of the Democratic operatives who pleaded guilty, Anthony Defiglio, told New York state police in 2009 that absentee ballot fraud works. “This is an ongoing scheme and it occurs on both sides of the aisle. The people who are targeted live in low-income housing and there is a sense that they are a lot less likely to ask any questions.

I’m a bit skeptical about how much Republicans do this; it wouldn’t surprise me if they did, they just hold virtually no political power in New York State against a vastly powerful Democratic Party machine.

Gore on his global climate alarmist snake oil sale trips keeps claiming that the big oil complex has a memo leaked out stating “reposition global warming as a theory rather than fact” as a strategy. Now, setting aside the truth that global warming is absolutely theory rather than fact, there’s a problem with this supposed “smoking gun.” Its nowhere to be found. Al Gore has listed two different sources of it, neither of which actually have the information he claims. Russel Cook tore through the internet and Nexis/Lexis database looking for it and it doesn’t exist. Al Gore just made it up, because its convenient for him. By now he probably even believes its real.

President Obama’s “stimulus” money was meant to kickstart the economy and we were told it would be primarily to rebuild infrastructure. The problem is that most of the money went for stuff other than infrastructure, such as billions for “green” energy startups that are dropping like flies. A large chunk of the rest went to leftist schemes which even if economically viable wouldn’t show results for years, if not decades. Then there’s stuff like this: $1.5 million went to a program to encourage inner city residents to get online. This would have zero economic benefit but its one of those lefty dream schemes that got piled on the “stimulus” package like spiderlings on the back of a Wolf Spider. The money went to pay already rich, successful movie and television types to make shows that feature inner city people on the internet. In other words, it was a subsidy for entertainment, that impoverished, struggling sector of the economy.

Back in 2008, the New York Times ran a story all about how the Pentagon was manipulating the press, controlling stories, lying to the press, and had cultivated “military analysts” in a “Trojan Horse” campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the the War on Terror. At the time I remember thinking “if that’s true, they must really suck at it” because the coverage was relentlessly hostile and negative. David Barstow won a Pulitzer Prize for the article (he fulfilled the basic requirement of kicking the military or US in the pills). Well the Pentagon’s Inspector General (you know, those guys that keep finding stuff out that upsets and annoys the departments they cover) looked it over and found absolutely no evidence to support this story. The NYT ran a little piece on how it turns out their story wasn’t true, but the buried it on page A20. They have no plans to give back the Pulitzer.

Drones have been busy for about 20 years now, with the most active use of them starting under President Bush in the War on Terror. For almost a decade we read about how they were gathering intelligence, saw footage of them in action, and read about how they would take out Taliban leaders and terrorist hives. Yet only now does the Washington Post write a piece about how effective these weapons are, and they give credit to… President Obama. The name of the article is “Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing.” I’m not making this up. Obama has been using the drones, following on established procedure and method that the Bush administration set up. But he’s doing so after years of them being used already, not creating some new apparatus.

Occupy is pretty much done with now, although I’m sure they’ll try to start up again next year. Yet their big issue was how evil it was that only 1% controlled so much money, how dare they! They called themselves the 99%, which as Speaker Boehner pointed out is erroneous, they’re part of the 100% Americans (presumably). Yet the backers, the financial machine behind the occupy movement is… the 1%. 25% of the backers of the Occupy movement are worth $4 billion dollars or more. It takes a lot of money to let people stay in tents for weeks at a time without working or doing anything productive. They have to be given food and supplies, lots of media attention, paper machet heads, and so on. All that costs money. This is yet another example of how everything the left accused the Tea Party movement of being, Occupy actually is. Racist, violent, radical, mostly male, mostly white, astroturf, run by the wealthy, you name it.

Girl scouts, primarily known for their cookies and cute uniforms, are one of the left’s targets. The problem with the scouting organizations is that they’re so traditional, so old fashioned, and have a creepy military vibe (if you’re a leftist). So its no surprise they’re continually targeted, and recently several chapters have just shut down because of a push to get “transgendered” boys into their ranks. If you’re 8 years old, you’re too young to be swapping sexes. You don’t even know who you are, let alone if you’re really a secret girl inside a boy’s body.

Meanwhile, the long march through the institutions that the socialists in America have been working on has reached the Girl Scouts in other ways. In their official material, they include the hard left, Soros-run, deliberately biased organization Media Matters as a go-to source for news fact checking. Its never too early to start indoctrinating girls into the left’s viewpoint.

AARP is pretty blatantly a Democratic Party machine, but like Media Matters, it still enjoys Tax Exempt status. Well, three Republican congressmen have requested that the IRS take a look at this status to see if they’re violating it and deserve continued protection from taxation. The IRS is probably torn between gathering more taxes and being controlled by Democrats who’d rather the AARP was left alone.

More Democrats are abandoning ship. Every time a major shift in power is in the wind, congressmen start retiring or changing parties; Republicans did it in 2006 and 2008. Why? Well, they lose their ability to control the money flow if their part is out of power, and they can’t cash in on sweet lobbyist and corporate no-work gigs if they aren’t any use to the companies any longer. Best to get out while you can get a benefit out of it. And besides, it takes huge ego to run for high office, and if you know you can’t win, that’s a pretty big blow to the ego.

One of these congressmen retiring is Ben Nelson, Democrat from Nebraska. As I wrote last year, Nelson sold out his constituents for big money to his state, and the voters there were outraged. Ten years ago or so, you could get away with that; five years, even. These days, people hear about it and don’t forget.

Austria, like a lot of European states, has pretty restrictive laws designed to protect Islam. They’re ostensibly to protect religion, but many only came into being recently and only are used to stop people from criticizing Islam. The most recent case is Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff who gave a talk in which she noted that Muhammad was a pedophile for sleeping with a nine-year-old girl (Aisha, reported in the Hadith and an event unquestioned by Muslims although some try to push her age up a few years). The judge ruled that since Muhammad stayed married to her until he died, he wasn’t really a pedophile, so the statement was a slanderous attack on a religion. The sentence was 60 days in jail or a €480 (about $600) fine. It would have been more, but the judge recognized that as a poor single housewife, she can’t afford to pay much. Your speech is free, unless you speak about Islam in a manner that annoys Muslims. Which doesn’t take much.

Occupy is “sexy” according to the Smithsonian Institute, which is gathering debris and materials from the events. Apparently the people working there think lice, dysentery, rape, and feces is sexy stuff.

Here’s the fastest selling single in England in six years. Its the number one song, and its not by Lady Gaga or Lil’ Wayne. Its by military wives, singing a song to their husbands on Christmas and sending their love out. Be ready to tear up:

На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать грубую лексику.

На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать разговорную лексику.

слово вокруг

ходят разговоры

You won’t have any quests until you get the word around about your room.

Вы не будете иметь никаких квестов, пока вы не получите слово вокруг о вашей комнате.

Gradually they develop trust in your brand and proudly spread the word around.

Постепенно они развивают доверие к вашему бренду и с гордостью распространять слово вокруг.

If it makes you all feel any better, the word around school is you’re down here because you beat the system.

И если от этого вам станет легче, по школе ходят разговоры, что вы попали сюда потому, что победили школьную систему.

Word around North Avenue is that the schools are running a deficit.

They are much more likely to click, buy, and spread the word around for your shop and products.

Они гораздо более склонны нажимать, покупать и распространять слово вокруг ваших продуктов и услуг.

Things are rarely impossible, so be very careful throwing this word around.

На свете практически не бывает невозможных вещей, так что будьте очень осторожны, разбрасываясь подобными словами.

And I don’t throw that word around.

I’m normally the person that gets the last word around here.

That’s not a dirty word around here, detective.

Здесь это не ругательное слово, детектив.

I’ll get the word around.

Good thing you’re not the final word around here.

Хорошо, что не за тобой тут последнее слово.

Christy… coyote is the «C» word around here.

I’ve stopped using that word around you.

Я перестала произносить это слово в твоей компании.

At least, that’s the word around the canteen.

По крайней мере, так говорят в столовой.

Don’t use that word around her.

The word around the courthouse is she’s shaky.

В здании суда ходят слухи, что она немного не в себе.

I shouldn’t use that word around here.

Не стоит мне произносить здесь это слово.

Not the word around town peewee.

Thanks in advance, please pass the word around.

Заранее спасибо, просьба сделать ссылки на практику.

It’d be great if you could also pass the word around.

Будет просто замечательно, если при этом и вы будете повторять слово вслух.

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Internet refers to the large system of connected computers around the world. This system allows people to communicate with each other and share information.

Because you use the Internet frequently, It’s good to know a number of computer and Internet vocabulary that you can use to talk about your online activities in English. So, what is vocabulary internet? What words are related to the internet?

Internet vocabulary refers to the phrases and words that you need to know when you are on the Internet in general and social media in particular so that you can use the Internet comfortably. Below are different lists of words related to the internet.

This post is really meaty. You’ll get to know a lot of vocabulary related to Internet, but I would like to start with the most common words you need to know to talk about the Internet.

10 most common words related to Internet

Here are 10 words related to Internet:

• Internet
• Net
• Web
• Cyberspace
• Connect
• Online
• Go online
• Offline
• Surf the Net
• Surf the Internet

Words related to Internet	Meaning
Surf	To spend much time visiting websites.
Online	Available or done on the Internet
Download	To copy information or programs to a computer, usually over the Internet.
Upload	To move information or a program from a computer/mobile to the Internet
Follow	If you follow a person on social networking websites, you choose to see everything they post on those websites.

Below is a list of words that contains a number of Internet verbs with meaning.

Internet verbs (phrasal verbs)/ internet terminology

• Plug sth in

 Connect sth to the socket (= outlet)

• Switch sth on / off

Turn sth on/off by pressing a button or switch.

• Log in / on

To perform the actions that allow you to begin using a computer system.

• Log off / out

To perform the actions that allow you to finish using a computer system

• Click on

To carry out a computer operation by pressing a button on the mouse or keyboard.

• Type in

To write sth using a computer

• Scroll up/down

 To move text on a computer up or down so that you can read different parts of it.

• Print out

To produce a document or information from a computer in printed form.

• Go down

Crash: stop working suddenly

Other Internet Verbs

Surf

To spend much time visiting websites.

Example: He is addicted to the Internet. He spends a lot of time surfing the Net/the Internet/the web.

Download

To copy information or programs to a computer, usually over the Internet.

Internet vocabulary esl in examples

Here are some internet words in example sentences

• Plug the computer in.
• Switch the computer on.
• Log on using your password.
• Click on the Internet symbol (Internet browser).
• If you want to open the program, just click on the icon.
• Type in the website address/ Type in the keyword in the search box.
• Scroll down/up the page.
• Print out the information you want.
• Log off, shut down the computer and switch it off.
• As soon as I opened the attachment, my computer went down.
  

  Other Internet terms (vocabulary about internet)

Below is another list of internet vocabulary. This list of Internet-related vocabulary is not exhaustive. It will be updated now and then.

Internet words list (Internet vocabulary)

Here is a list of vocabulary about internet with meaning

• Intranet: a computer network that is private to a company, university, etc. but is connected to and uses the same software as the Internet.

• LAN: Local Area Network = a system for connecting the computers of people who work in the same company.

• Wireless LAN (= hotspot ):  A  wireless LAN has the same structure as a wired LAN that uses cables. The difference is that instead of connecting with cables, computers use radio waves to communicate with a hotspot.

• Switch: the electronic device that forms the “center” of a LAN.

• Port: The socket on a switch to which a cable can attach.

• WAN: Wide Area Network as opposed to LAN.

• Email (electronic mail): a way of sending messages and data to other people by means of computers connected together in a network.

• Attachment: a document that you send someone using email.

• Router: a device that sends data to the appropriate parts of a computer network.

• Password: a series of numbers or letters that you must type into a computer or computer system in order to be able to use it.

• The World Wide Web (referred to as WWW or the web) is a service on the internet. It consists of a set of linked documents called webpages which can be viewed using a program called a browser.

• Internet: the global telecommunication network.

• Digital (adjective): using a system in which information is shown in the form of numbers. A computer is digital because inside a computer, all information is represented by numbers.

• Digital communication: communication provided by the Internet.

• Browser: a program that lets you look at or read documents on the Internet such as Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.

• Domain name: it indicates the network domain in which the webpage is stored e.g. englishdotcom.net

• Domain extension: “.net” in www.englishdotcom.net is a domain extension.

• .net: Network

• .com : Commercial business

• .org: Organizations

• .edu: Educational institution

• .gov: Government agencies

• .mil: Military

• URL: (Uniform Resource Locator) the web address of a webpage e.g.

• https://englishdotcom.net/study-skills-in-college. The URL consists of a number of separate parts divided by forward slashes (/).

• HTTP:// is referred to as the protocol prefix and indicates that the hypertext transfer protocol should be used to transfer the webpage across the Internet.

• Keyword: the word that users type in the search box of a search engine.

• Search engines: people use them to search for websites and information on the Internet. For example, Google, Bing, AOL.com, yandex.ru, Baidu, to name but a few.

• SEO= Search Engine Optimization (internet vocabulary)

• Web pages: documents that are connected to the World Wide Web and that anyone with an Internet connection can see. A web site can have several web pages.

• Download: to move data to a smaller computer system from a larger one.

• Upload: move data to a larger computer system from a smaller one.

• FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions about a website, a company, an organization, etc.

• Phishing: A term used by security experts to describe email messages that attempt to lure victims into sending money or revealing their personal information that normally should be kept confidential (e.g., credit card numbers and expiration dates, ATM PINs, and bank account numbers).

• Virus: instructions that are hidden within a computer program and are designed to cause faults or destroy data.

• IT: stands for Information Technology.The study and use of electronic processes and equipment to store and send information of all kinds, including words, pictures, and numbers.

• Over/on the Internet: using the Internet. ⇒ I buy all my books over/on the Internet.

• Surf the Net/Internet: use the internet. ⇒ He spends too much time surfing the Internet.

• WiFi: Wireless Fidelity = a system for connecting electronic equipment like computers, smartphones, etc. and electronic organizers to the Internet without using wires.

• Social media / social networking websites: websites where people share their interests such as Facebook,  Whatsapp, Reddit, etc.

• App (= Application ): a mobile app / a program or a software application designed to do a particular job.

• IP address = Internet Protocol address: a number which is given to each computer when it is connected to the Internet.

• Mail list (mailing list): a list of addresses and names kept by a company/organization so that it can send advertisements and information to the people on the list.

What’s another way to say online?

Another way to say online is connected to the Internet.

On the web, on the Internet, plugged in, connected to, virtual, on-line, electronically connected, on-screen, etc. are other words for online.

Since you are most of your time connected to the internet, you should not miss out on this important list of vocabulary related to internet as well as the computer-related words below to enrich your vocabulary.

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Computer vocabulary words/internet terminology

Here is a computer terms list with definitions (computer vocabulary words with meaning):

• Programming: the process of writing and testing programs for computers.
• Programming language = computer language: a set of rules, words, etc. that are used for writing computer programs.
• Software program: a set of rules or instructions or procedures 
• Computer program: a set of instructions that makes a computer do a particular thing.
• Spyware: computer software that obtains information about a user’s computer without the user’s consent or knowledge.
• PDA: Personal Digital Assistance = a small computer that you can carry with you.
• CPU: Central Processing Unit
• Cursor: a line on a computer screen that moves to show the point where work is being done:
• CD: Compact disc ( a small disc on which information or sound is recorded)
• CD burner: a piece of equipment for copying sound or information onto a CD.
• CD-ROM: Compact disc read-only memory ( a CD on which a large amount of information, pictures, and sound can be stored, for use on a computer.
• CD–RW: Compact disc re-writable (an empty compact disc that you can use to record information on and read information from, using a special type of drive.
• RAM: Random Access Memory (a memory that allows access to any particular piece of information at almost any time. Data in this memory can be changed or removed and can be looked at any order ).
• Virtual memory: space that can be used on the hard drive of a computer to store information temporarily so that there is more memory available when it is needed by software such as a computer game.
• IP Address: a series of numbers separated by dots that identifies a particular computer connected to the Internet.
• Modem:  a device that transfers digital data over a carrier wave, either on a wire or wireless network.
• GB: Gigabyte
• Byte: A unit of information stored in a computer.  A Byte consists of 8 bits.
• Gigaflop: a unit for measuring a computer’s speed, equal to approximately one billion operations per second.
• VDU / VDT:  Visual Display Unit / Video Display Terminal ( a machine with a screen like a television that displays information from a computer)
• USB drive / USB stick /flash drive = memory stick
• User ID: The username /user name by which a person is normally identified to a computer system or network.

Social media vocabulary in English

The following internet words are used to speak about social media. They can also help understand others if they are talking about social media.

Internet words list:

Social media vocabulary	Meaning
Meme	An image that is typically humorous and shared widely by people on social media.
Follower	A person who is tracking a particular person, a group, etc on social media.
Engagement	Engagement refers to any type of interaction a user has with the social media platform such as writing comments, likes, dislikes, shares, etc.
Hashtag	The symbol #, which is used to describe a general topic.
Direct message (DM)	A private message that is sent on social media.
Campaign	A planned activity to achieve a particular goal on social media like a Facebook campaign…
Phishing	A scam in which a person impersonates others so as to get internet users to reveal personal information like a credit card number, a password, etc.

The list of internet words (Internet terms) is not exhaustive. More Internet vocabulary will be added to make it a comprehensive list.

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address (noun): a string of letters/numbers that identifies the location of a website/webpage (for example https://www.example.com/page) or the destination for email messages (for example [email protected]). — Let me have your email address and I’ll send you the details.

admin (abbreviation): administrator
administrator (noun): a person responsible for day-to-day running and operation of a website etc. — If you lose your password and can contact the admin staff for help.

app (abbreviation): application (especially when downloaded to and used on a mobile device). — I want to install that app on my phone.
application (noun): in computing, a software program that runs a particular operation. — Have you downloaded that new database application yet?

avatar (noun): an icon or symbol representing a particular person in an internet forum or video game etc. — You’ve got such a cool new avatar for your profile. I love it!

bandwidth (noun): the transmission capacity of an electronic communications system or computer network, expressed for example as megabits per second (Mbps or Mb/s). — To download videos you may have to pay extra for more bandwidth.

banner (noun): an advertisement on a webpage in the form of a graphic bar, column or box. — Most people really hate websites with too many banners on their pages.

bit (noun): short for binary digit; the smallest and most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. Eight bits equal one byte. — The bit commonly represents a state with one of two possible values, for example 1 or 0, yes/no, on/off etc.

blog (noun): a (relatively small) regularly updated website or webpage, often operated by an individual and written in a conversational style. A blog is composed of posts. Originates from web log. — When Wora was travelling she started a blog to describe all the places she went.

blog (verb): write a post or posts on a blog. — I used to blog every day but I’ve been getting lazy lately.

bookmarks (noun): favourites; a record (usually in a browser) of preferred website links for easy access. — I’ve got so many bookmarks in my browser that it’s usually quicker to just google the site I want!

browse (verb): look around the internet or look through or scan a website (as opposed to making a specific search). — Once I start browsing the net I never finish lol.

browser (noun): an application on computer, smartphone and other devices for connecting to the internet and navigating between webpages. — Most smartphones come with a default browser (like Safari on iPhone) but if you prefer you can easily install some other browser to use instead.

button (noun): on a webpage or in an email etc, a graphical control element that the user can easily click on to trigger an event, such as searching for a keyword on a search engine, or confirming any action such as upload/download/pay now. — When you’ve filled in the form just click the big blue button to continue.

byte (noun): a unit of digital information that (usually) consists of eight bits. — Historically, a byte referred to the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer.

cache (noun): temporary storage or memory from which high-speed retrieval is possible. — You may need to clear your browser cache if you keep getting the old data.

case-sensitive (adjective): making a difference between CAPITAL letters (upper-case) and small letters (lower-case). — Be careful, the password is case-sensitive so PaSsWoRd is not the same as password or PASSWORD.

chat (verb): engage in an online chat. — How long are you online for? Have you got time to chat a bit?

chat (noun): an informal online conversation using text messages in real time. — Many internet users enjoy online chat from time to time.

click (verb): On a webpage, email etc, press on or tap a link, image or button to perform some action. — Click here to save money.

click (noun): an act of clicking on a webpage, email etc. — We get a thousand clicks every day from this webpage.

clickbait (noun): sensational content or headlines specifically written to encourage visitors to click. — Don’t click on that trash. It’s just clickbait for the gullible.

clipart (noun): fairly basic and inexpensive pictures and graphics made for people to add to their documents or webpages. — You could easily find some clipart to illustrate your blog post, but if you want something more professional you may have to pay for it.

cloud computing (noun): the practice of using online applications and services hosted on the internet rather than in local or personal computers. — I rely on cloud computing to backup my photos so if I lose my phone I don’t lose my pics.

comments (noun): on a webpage, visitors’ thoughts and opinions about a post or article. — Do you like to leave comments on random blog posts or do you think it’s a waste of time?

comment (verb): give an opinion or express some information at the end of a post or article. — There’s a comment section at the end so feel free to comment there.

cookie (noun): a small file that a webserver installs on your computer or device to identify and track you. — I just checked my browser and it says there are 74 cookies in use on this website.

copyright (noun): a legal right to publish original work such as a document, song or film. — He said that some website copied all his pages without permission and he’s going to take them to court and sue them for a million dollars for copyright infringement.

database (noun): a system of data and information held in a computer or webserver. — Some social media sites have more information about you in their databases than you have.

developer, web developer (noun): a programmer who builds and maintains websites. — A web developer is more involved in the coding and scripting side of websites while a webmaster tends to look after the content.

digital (adjective): relating to data expressed electronically or using numerical digits. — You can upload digital images from your phone to the internet.

digital communication (noun): transfer of information using digital signals (both wired and wireless). — Email sent over the internet is an example of digital communication.

direct message, DM (noun/verb): a private communication between users on social media, forums etc, which can only be seen by the sender and the recipient. Also called private message or PM. — Please DM me with your email address.

domain extension, domain suffix (noun): the group of characters at the end of a domain name, for example «com» in englishclub.com. — I tried to get .com for my new domain name but it’s been taken, so do you think .co.uk would be ok?

domain name (noun): a unique name that identifies a website, for example englishclub.com or equiz.me. — In www.google.com, only google.com is the domain name, and in https://www.apple.com/mac/ only apple.com is the domain name.

DOS (abbreviation): denial of service
denial of service attack (noun): a deliberate and malicious attempt to make a web server (or other computer) fail and stop working. — Many famous websites such as Google and Twitter have been targets of DOS attacks in the past.

DNS (abbreviation): Domain Name System
Domain Name System (noun): a decentralized system that allows internet domain names and other online resources to be tracked and regulated. — It’s thanks to DNS that when you type englishclub.com into your browser you don’t end up at tefl.net.

down (adjective): of a server or website, state of being non-operational, not working. — Is Google still down? Let me know when it’s up.

download (verb): copy files from the internet to your own computer or device. Compare upload. — Do you know any website where I could download all the James Bond films free?

e-commerce (noun): commercial transactions done electronically on the internet. — Would you say that Amazon.com is the most successful example of e-commerce?

email 1 (noun, uncountable): short for electronic mail, a system through which messages can be sent worldwide to and from anyone with an email address. — They used to say social media would kill email. How wrong they were!

email 2 (noun, countable): a specific message received by email. — Do you read your emails once-a-day or as they come in?

EMF (abbreviation): electromagnetic fields
electromagnetic fields (noun): invisible electric and magnetic force fields and radiation in and around all live electrical equipment including computers, cables, mobile phones and devices, modems, wifi routers and wifi systems. — Excessive EMF is harmful to human beings, especially babies and children, and we should do everything possible to reduce or eliminate it.

FAQ (abbreviation): Frequently Asked Questions (pronounced [eff-ay-kyu] OR [fak])
Frequently Asked Questions (noun): a list of questions that people often ask. — Most people just say FAQ instead of Frequently Asked Questions; and if there are several lists they may say FAQs.

favourites^UK, favorites^US (noun): bookmarks; a record (usually in a browser) of preferred website links for easy access. — Have you noticed that some browsers say favorites and some say bookmarks?

field, form field (noun): a box on an internet form where you can enter data such as name or address. — Please fill in all fields.

filter, web filter (noun): content control software designed to limit the websites an internet user can visit on a particular computer. — Many parents install web filters to block their children from seeing unsuitable websites.

firewall (noun): a computer network security system that restricts internet access within a private network. — I can’t access YouTube on my office computer since the company installed a firewall.

follow (verb): track somebody on social media by subscribing to their account. — I used to follow celebrities on Twitter but not any more.

follower (noun): somebody who is tracking a particular account on social media. — A lot of people don’t like him but he still has over two million followers on Twitter.

format, file format (noun): the way data is saved within a file, for example:
image: gif, jpg, png
audio: mp3
video: mp4
text: html, htm, php, asp

forum, web forum (noun): a section on a website that lets users communicate with each other by posting public (and private) messages. — Anyone can read this forum but if you want to post messages you need to sign up.

forward (verb): send an email that you have received on to another person. — My emails are forwarded to a friend when I’m on holiday.

FTP (abbreviation): file transfer protocol
file transfer protocol (noun): a communication system used for the transfer of computer files over the internet, typically between a server and a computer. — Some web developers use FTP to upload their webpages to their server.

GB, gigabyte (noun): a unit of information equal to one thousand million bytes or one thousand megabytes; often abbreviated as gig. — How many gigs does your hard drive hold?

GIF (abbreviation): 1. one of several different formats for digital image files, supporting animated and static images 2. a file in GIF format, for example image.gif. — We’ll use a gif so that the image can be animated.

go down (verb): of a website or server, go offline because of overload, attack or accident. — Their server went down thanks to a DOS attack from hackers.

hack (verb): gain unauthorized access to a website, database, email etc. — His email was easily hacked because he used a very simple password.

hacker (noun): a person who hacks and gains unauthorized access to internet systems. — The police think it was a group of foreign hackers that stole the money through the bank’s website.

history (noun): a record in a web browser of recently visited websites. — Usually you can set your browser to delete your history after a set number of days.

homepage (noun): the first or main page of a website. — You can return to the homepage at any time by clicking the logo at top-left of every page.

HTML (abbreviation: HyperText Markup Language): the coding language and format used to create webpages. — Many webpages have the extension .html and sometimes .htm, but it’s the same thing.

https (abbreviation: HyperText Transport Protocol Secure): the data transfer protocol used on the World Wide Web, the prefix of websites for example https://www.englishclub.com. — The original protocol was http and it became https when more security was added.

hyperlink (noun): highlighted word, words or image that you can click on to go to another section or to another page on the internet. — Originally, hyperlinks were blue and underlined, but now they may be almost any colour.

icon (noun): a visual representation of something (for example folders and files) on a computer or website. — Most people know to click on the trash can icon to delete a file.

inbox (noun): in email, the folder where incoming emails go first. — I feel so happy when I manage to deal with all my new emails and my inbox is empty.

internet, Internet (noun): a global electronic network providing a variety of information, education, entertainment, shopping and other facilities accessible to anyone with a computer and mobile phone. — It’s hard to imagine a world without the Internet, but a few decades ago nobody had heard of it.

intranet (noun): a private or restricted network (like a mini-internet) that can only be accessed by authorized users. — Many companies have their own intranet so that staff can share messages and files privately.

IP (abbreviation): Internet Protocol
Internet Protocol (noun): the set of rules for sending and receiving data over the internet. — All our different computers, servers, devices and platforms wouldn’t be able to talk to each other globally without the Internet Protocol.

IP address (noun): a unique address or string of characters that identifies each device on the internet. — People often say «IP» instead of «IP address» in full. For example «What’s your IP?»

ISP (abbreviation): internet service provider
internet service provider (noun): a company that provides you with access to the internet. — By coincidence the company I work for uses the same ISP as we do at home.

IT (abbreviation): information technology
information technology (noun): the study and use of systems (especially computers and telecommunications) for the storage, retrieval and sending of data/information. — These days IT is one of the best career choices for young people.

JPG, JPEG (noun): 1. one of several different formats for digital image files, typically used for photographs 2. a file in JPG format, for example image.jpg. — Photographs, with colours and gradients, usually convert best to JPG.

keyword, keyphrase (noun): a word or group of words that summarize a topic and can be used to find the topic in a search engine. — Trashy websites often stuff their pages with keywords in the hope that they will appear at the top of search engine results.

LAN (abbreviation): local area network
local area network (noun): a computer network linking devices within a building or several buildings. — All the printers at work are connected to our LAN.

link (noun): hyperlink. — Did you have to pay them to get a link to your website?

link (verb): create a hyperlink between webpages. — Is it ok if I link to your latest post?

log in/log on (verb): enter a username and password to gain access to a website, computer, database etc; sign in. — It’s mostly websites involving money or membership that require you to log in.

meme (noun): a (usually funny) image, video, text etc that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users. — Memes are like little thought bombs that capture people’s imagination for a time.

message (noun): an email or similar electronic communication; an automatic electronic communication displayed on a screen. — I was checking my mail messages when a warning message popped up on the screen.

modem (noun): a device used for connecting a computer to an ISP’s incoming internet line. — If you don’t have a modem your internet provider should give you one free.

net (noun): short for internet. — Apart from email and the world wide web, how many other services are there on the net?

network (noun): a number of interconnected computers, servers etc. — The ultimate network of course is the Internet.

offline (adjective): the state of being down or disconnected (from the internet). — People are going crazy because Google’s been offline all morning.

online (adjective): the state of being up or connected (to the internet). — You can’t access our website right now but it should be back online in thirty minutes.

OP (abbreviation): original poster — the first to start a forum topic — We’re going off-topic so I’ll try to answer exactly what the OP asked.

password (noun): a secret word or string of characters that allows access to a computer or website. — Some passwords have to be eight or more characters long and composed of letters, numbers and special characters like $, &, %.

phishing (noun): the fraudulent practice of sending fake emails apparently from reputable companies like your bank, to induce you to reveal personal information such as credit card details and passwords. — Be on the lookout for scam phishing emails — if in doubt go direct to the official website or phone a number you know.

platform, online platform, digital platform (noun): a fairly flexible term that usually means a website or mobile app that facilitates the exchange of information, goods or services between users or between users and the platform. Examples may include Twitter, Amazon and Booking.com. — It’s generally agreed that a platform is more than just a big website.

podcast (noun): a digital audio recording on the internet, typically a talk or interview, that can be streamed or downloaded to a computer or mobile device. — Podcasts started as sound-only files but these days they are often video too, like the famous Joe Rogan podcast on Spotify.

print out (noun): paper version of a web page, for example, after being printed. — I need a print out of these search results as soon as you can please.

program (noun): a series of coded software instructions to control the operation of a computer, website etc; application, app. — This is a great recording program but it only runs on Mac.

programming language (noun): one of several languages used for programming or writing computer code, such as Basic, C++, Java, Perl, PHP etc. — Knowledge of more than one programming languages is usually essential if you want to be a highly-paid programmer.

protocol (noun): in computing, a set of rules that govern the exchange or transmission of data between devices (something like the grammar rules of a human language). — If two devices support the same protocol, they can communicate with each other, no matter the type of device or the manufacturer.

router, wifi router (noun): a machine which receives internet from your modem and then «routes» the internet to your various devices such as computers and laptops, mobile phones, tablets, TVs and printers etc. — My computer is wired to the router for top speed and reliability, but the rest of my devices use wifi for convenience.

scroll up/down/sideways (verb): move text and graphics on a screen up or down to see different parts of it; sometimes also move sideways to left or right. — On most websites I immediately scroll down past all the ads to find the real content.

search (verb): look for a particular webpage or topic on the web, usually using a keyword on a search engine like Google. — Try searching for «hotel london» on Google and see what come up first.

search engine (noun): specialized website (for example Google or Yandex) that looks for and identifies webpages that correspond to keywords or keyphrases entered by a user. — It’s amazing how quickly these search engines can return millions of results to my searches in a split second.

SEO (abbreviation): search engine optimization
search engine optimization (noun): the practice of optimizing and adjusting a website or webpage in the hope that it will appear at the top of search engines rankings. — Some webmasters spend big money on SEO consultants to tweak every heading, meta tag and word for better results, while others believe that just writing natural and good quality content automatically brings good results.

share (verb): let people know about some webpage or resource by linking to it or posting it on social media. — Please share my story with all your friends.

sign in (verb): log in. — If you want to comment you have to sign in first.

social media (noun): websites and platforms on the world wide web that let users create and share content and communicate with other members. — These days I try not to waste time on social media.

software program (noun): found on websites, computers and mobile phones etc, an application that has a specific function (for example a database, speadsheet, calendar); an app. — Can this software program run on Windows and Mac?

spam, spam mail (noun): unrequested, irrelevant and/or unwanted email, often sent in bulk, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware etc. — Half the emails I get every day are spam and get filtered straight to my spam bin.

spammer (noun): a person who generates spam. — Our company is currently warning staff to avoid the latest trick by spammers to gather email addresses.

subscribe (verb): if you subscribe to a website or email newsletter you join up and expect to receive regular communication, usually by email. — If I subscribe to your newsletter, how can I unsubscribe if I don’t like what you send me?

switch something off, switch off something (verb): turn something off; stop the operation of something by using a button or switch. — I switched off the computer and went to bed.

toolbar (noun): a slim horizontal control panel usually at the top of an application, typically a web browser. — You can customize this toolbar and I usually add the share button and zoom in/out controls.

type in (verb): enter words from your keyboard, for example into a name and address box, or into the url bar at the top of a browser. — Type in your details and then press Submit.

up (adjective): of a server or website, state of being operational, working correctly. — Facebook’s been down all day but it’s up now.

upload (verb): copy files from your own computer or device to the internet. Compare download. — As soon as I write a new page on my computer, I upload it to my webserver and after that it’s visible on the internet worldwide.

URL (abbreviation): uniform resource locator
uniform resource locator (noun): the full address of a website or webpage, for example https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/. — Normally people just say URL, pronounce U-R-L, for example: What’s the URL for your latest webpage?

user ID, userID (noun): a unique identifier or username used for logging on to a website. — On this website my userID is the same as my email so I can remember it easily.

username (noun): userID; a special name used by a user to login to a website, or to post messages or use an email service etc. — To change your username you may need to ask admin to do it for you.

virus, computer virus (noun): a piece of harmful code that can copy and spread itself in computers, internet servers, websites etc, potentially corrupting the system or destroying data. — Windows computers are notorious for getting infected by viruses if they don’t have really good anti-virus software.

WAN (abbreviation): wide area network
wide area network (noun): a computer network over a larger area than a LAN, typically having a radius of more than 1 kilometre. — Wide area networks are a bit like local area networks but miles bigger, sometimes connected by satellite.

web (noun): short for world wide web. — Does anyone know just how many pages there are on the web?

web hosting (noun): a service that maintains multiple (thousands of) websites on its servers, acting on behalf of the website owner. — Seems like web hosting is quite a popular business; it’s one of the more expensive keywords in Google Advertising.

webmaster (noun): a person who maintains a particular website, especially its content. Compare to web developer who mainly looks after the programming and technical side of a website. — Please send new ideas for blog posts to our webmaster.

web page, webpage (noun): any one of billions of pages on the world wide web. Most websites have tens, hundreds or thousands of webpages. — A few websites consist of a single webpage only.

web server (noun): a specialized computer connected to the internet and serving one or more websites 24-hours a day. — There will be some interruption to our website as we will be upgrading our web server over the weekend.

website (noun): one or more webpages under a single domain name and typically based around the same topic and managed by a single organization or person. — You can find much more information on their website.

Wi-Fi, wifi (noun): a system that lets computers, smartphones and other devices connect wirelessly to each other over a limited area or connect to the internet. — Strictly-speaking the term Wi-Fi is a registered trademark owned by the Wi-Fi Alliance.

wireless LAN, WLAN (noun): a wireless local area network based on radio (wireless) transmissions, for example Wi-Fi. — All computers and printers in our office are connected to our WLAN.

WWW, www (abbreviation): world wide web; often used as part of a website address, for example https://www.englishclub.com
World Wide Web, world wide web (noun): information system on the internet that allows pages (documents) to be connected to other pages by hypertext links, such that users can search for information by moving from one page to another page; the web for short. — The first time I saw the World Wide Web I was immediately struck by the opportunities for sharing knowledge world-wide.