Digital Technology Terms

The following presents the preferred usage of a few of the more commonly used computer and internet terms.

• cellphone
• crowdfunding
• cybersecurity
• database
• eBay (capitalize at the beginning of a sentence)
• email
• e-reader
• Facebook
• firewall
• Instagram
• internet
• iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch (capitalize at the beginning of a sentence)
• LinkedIn
• log in/log on, log off (as verbs)
• login/logon, logoff (as adjectives, nouns)
• online
• real time (noun)
• real-time (adjective)
• smartphone
• Twitter (tweets)
• voicemail
• VoIP
• web, website, webpage, webfeed, webmaster, webcam, webcast
• web address, web browser
• workstation
• Yahoo
• YouTube

Do not include http:// when listing website addresses. Exception: Include it when there is an "s" (https://). Also, do not include www at the beginning of a web address. In some instances, it is acceptable — from a design perspective — to omit the period after a URL.