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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PCMCIA

(Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) an inter-national standards body and trade association with over 500 member companies founded in 1989 to establish standards for Integrated Circuit cards and to promote interchangeability among mobile computers where durability, low power, and small size were critical. Among the standards a card needs for PCMCIA compliance are uniform thickness and size.