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.
Standard
a value by which other values are measured. A standard may either be official and endorsed by an organization of some type, or unofficial and simply accepted as an industry-wide rule. Standards are important when con-sidering computer hardware and software because, among other things, they ensure that devices are compatible and can be used together. Among the orga-nizations setting computer standards are, Video Electronics Standards Asso-ciation (VESA) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
