Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Data Compression
the storage of data so that it requires less space than it might otherwise. There are many methods of data compression. For example, rather than write a string of 60 of the same characters, a programmer would write, .the following character is repeated 60 times.. Data compression is especially useful when transmitting graphics via a modem because it allows the image to load more quickly.
