Lex Cyberia

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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Menu

a list of choices or commands a computer has available on a screen. The menu options may be accessed by pointing the mouse cursor over the desired command and left clicking. Usually this will prompt a list of choices to appear. From here, the user clicks of one of the items to execute the particular command.