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.
Mouse
a popular computer input device, vaguely shaped like a real mouse, that allows the user to select commands displayed on a monitor and easily initiate those commands by clicking the device. A mouse is used by moving it around a small field on a physical desktop (often a mousepad). Moving the mouse positions a pointer, or mouse cursor on the monitor. When the cursor is in position, (placed over a command button, or hyperlink) the mouse is clicked to initiate the command. The mouse was developed by Douglas Engelbart and Xerox Corporation in the 1970s, adopted by Apple soon after, and utilized with huge success by Microsoft with the introduction of Windows in the early 1990s. The mouse is a vital component of the graphical user interface. The plural of mouse is mice and they are available in cordless models.
