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.
Memory
data storage space inside a computer. Memory usually refers to data stored using a chip or chips, while the term storage refers to data maintained on disks or tape. All computers are equipped with what is known as physical memory, called the main memory or Random Access Memory (RAM). RAM is the same as physical memory. In the recent past, the standard memory capacity for an off-the-shelf Personal Computer was anywhere from 16 to 32 megabytes of RAM. Today, many stock computers come equipped with 64 to 128 megabytes of RAM and often more.
