Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

Key Terms

Review the following list of key terms:

• Blog (or weblog)— A website that posts periodic updates or new entries in a revolving, vertical queue of messages.

• Instant Messaging (IM)— A realtime messaging technique.

• Internet Relay Chat (IRC)— A protocol and network service for realtime text messaging.

• Peer-to-Peer (P2P)— A system for establishing direct connections between Internet users for purposes of sharing files.

• Resource Description Framework (RDP)— A semantic web framework.

• Semantic web— A set of technologies designed to provide information on the meaning of web data.

• Social networking site— One of several services that supports blogging, messaging, and other activities from a personal website.

• Web 2.0— A collection of tools that reflect ...