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.
MIDI
(Musical Instrument Digital Interface) pronounced middy, a standard for the way electronic musical instruments interact. When a computer is equipped to play MIDI files it simply means there is a MIDI-capable sound card inside the machine. Most cards are able to play two types of sound: digital audio and MIDI. Though digital audio is a more pure method of sound reproduction, it requires a great deal of memory. MIDI files are more easily compressed and require significantly less memory. MIDI files are easily downloaded from the Internet. Often, when you hear music playing on a Website, it.s a MIDI.
