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.
Tape drive
a device that reads and/or writes data onto a tape. Accessing data on tape can be time consuming depending upon the location of the information. For example, a tape drive would need to fast forward through a large quantity of tape to access data stored in the middle of a spool.
