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.
Hard Disk
a magnetic data storage platter made from aluminum and coated with iron oxide used for saving computer data. The hard disk or hard drive usually refers to the main or permanent storage device of a computer. In the early days of personal computers, a typical hard disk stored 10 megabytes. It seems that modern computers have an almost unlimited capacity for data storage with hard disks now able to store up to 50 gigabytes of data and more in some cases.
