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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.

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Dialog Box

a window appearing on the screen offering the user information or options as to the next step in the present application. For example, when set-ting up the layout for a document in a word processing program, a dialog box is available offering the user options on the size and style of the font, margins, and possibly the color of the text.