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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Hardware

virtually any computer component or related device that isnâ€™t regarded as data or software. The display monitor, keyboard, connecting cables, optical scanner, printer, modem, sound card, the actual box containing the computer circuitry, and any other tangible computer component is considered hardware.