instant messaging | a king of e-mail where both people are online at the same time | |
chat rooms | an online conversation between a group of people on topics chosen by them | |
newsgroups | a website where people with shared interests can get news and information | |
attachments | files you send at the same time as e-mail messages | |
e-commerce | all kinds of business done on the Internet | |
browsing | looking at different websites, with no particular goal | |
surfing the Web | moving form one webside or one web page to another, usually looking for sth | |
graphic images | technical term for pictures , icons, diagrams... | |
ISP - Internet Service Provider | a company that offers users access to the Internet and services such as news, e-mail, shopping sites | |
downloading | bringing files to your computer from the Internet | |
uploading | sending files from your computer to the Internet or to another Internet user | |
spam | unwanted advertisements and other material send to you by e-mail from companies | |
cookies | a kind of program that is sent from the Internet to your computer, often without your knowledge | |
offensive material | material such as pornography or extreme political views, or amterial that encourages hate&violence | |
to bookmark | to put in a list of website you can access immediately | |
to subscribe to | to become a member of | |
to screen out | to prevent from reaching you | |
server | central computer that distributes e-mail and other services to a group of users | |
to be down | to be not working | |
to hack into | to access sth illegally | |
anti-virus software | protection against computer viruses | |
to bounce | to come back to sb (about an e-mail) | |
to be garbled | to be just a series of meaningless letters and numbers | |
undelete | opposite of delete | |
upload | opposite of download | |
outbox | opposite of inbox | |
offline | opposite of online | |
uninstall | opposite of install | |
to update | uaktualniać | |
e-signatures | a way of identifying yourself on the Internet with a unique code or name | |
e-learning | taking courses over the Internet | |
e-enabled | means that all the study materials can be accessed and worked with through the Internet | |
e-books | books which you can buy from the Internet or CD-ROM, and which you can then read on your computer | |
dotcom economy | it refers to Internet companies, whose web addresses typically end in .com | |