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.
Floppy Disk
Floppy Disk a portable magnetic storage disk, the term is somewhat of a misnomer. The 5 1/4 inch storage disk used in early model PCs was flexible, thus called a floppy disk. Today, the most common portable disk still called a floppy is the 3 1/2 inch variety. Unlike the earlier 5 1/4 inch version, the 3 1/2 inch floppy is rigid, but the name floppy has managed to stick. Floppy disks usually store 1.44 MB of dataFigure.
