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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Modem

a device that allows for communications between computers via a tele-phone line, coaxial cable, or fiber optics by transferring digital data. The trans-fer rate of the information is measured in bits per second (bps). Modems may be connected to computers internally, or externally. Wireless modems are avail-able for portable computers and work much like cellular telephones.