Vocabulary: Fall List #6

1.meme: a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition and replication in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.
2.virus: a viral disease.
3.viral: becoming very popular by circulating quickly from person to person, especially through the Internet.
4. blog: becoming very popular by circulating quickly from person to person, especially through the Internet.
5.wiki: a website that allows anyone to add, delete, or revise content by using a web browser.
6.URL: Uniform Resource Locator, a protocol for specifying addresses on the internet.
7.website: a connected group of pages on the World wide web regarded as a single entity, usually maintained by one person or organization and devoted to a single topic or several closely related topics.
8. www: a system of extensively interlined hypertext documents.
9. internet: a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide.
10. 2.0: used post positively to denote a revised or improved version of the original.
11. open source: pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free to charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sub license, or distribute.

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