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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Windows NT

the most sophisticated of Microsoft.s operating systems, NT is a high-performance system utilizing multitasking and graphical user interface. More similar to UNIX, Windows was never built on the DOS platform. NT includes a security system that prevents programs from manipulating hard-ware without proper authorization (the underlying cause of many system crashes). There are two versions of Windows NT, Windows NT Workstation (Of which Windows 2000 was born) and Windows NT Server, designed for use in networking.