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.
OS / Operating System
An operating system is the very basic "program" which makes your computer start and run. It helps the higher level applications "talk" to the hardware. Common operating systems are MS-DOS, Windows 95, UNIX, MAC System 7, etc. Normally programs written for one operating system will not run on another.
