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.
Open
Depending on how it is used, can mean any one of the following: To read the contents of a certain file To start or launch a computer application or software program To maximize or restore a "window" of an already running computer program. Most commonly used however is the read meaning which may appear in a sentence something like this: "Take this file and open it with Microsoft Word. This means that MSWord is the application you should use to read this file or see what is in it or what it looks like. Computer systems are set or have an area where a user can set the default application to "open up" a particular file.
