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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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Moore’s Law

a prediction made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, stating the number of transistors occupying a square inch of integrated circuit material had doubled each year since the invention of the integrated circuit and that the multiplication of circuitry would continue. For the most part, the observation held true until the late 1970s when the time span of a year increased to about 18 months. Over time, Moore.s Law has erroneously been associated with the notion that microprocessor speeds would double each year.