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.
Graphical User Interface
(GUI) pronounced gooey. a method of interacting with a computer program by making use of graphics, icons, pop-up menus, windows, a mouse and mouse pointer. To point to an object with a mouse cursor, click on the object, and experience a result such as having a menu appear or to arrive at a Web page is an example of graphical user interface. The basic technology was developed by Xerox in the 1970s but the company could find few practical applications for it. Macintosh adapted GUI as the foundation of the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until the early 1990s with the emergence of Windows 3.0 that the technology really took off.
