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.
Internet
(Net) the worldwide network of computers originally set up by the US Department of Defense in the late 1960s. Called ARPANET (Advanced Re-search Projects Agency Network), it was designed to function as a continuing method of communication should any part of the system be destroyed by nuclear attack or sabotage. In time, it was used as a means of communication among university scholars throughout the United States. It eventually evolved into the popular electronic forum for international communication by way of interac-tive discussion, email, commercial Websites, entertainment and much more. The term internet written with a lower case .i. indicates a local computer net-work.
