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.
Extension
the suffix or the characters following the period in a filename such as mountain.jpg. This file might be a photograph (or other graphical representation) of a mountain in the form of a bitmap. The name .mountain. indicates that the file contains the image, and jpg indicates the type of file, which in this case is a bitmap. The software application a computer is currently running must be configured to execute particular file formats or they will be rejected.
