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.
Scroll
the systematic movement of text or images, either up and down, or from side to side on a computer display screen with the use of the keyboard arrow keys, or a mouse. In scrolling down, a new line of text appears at the bottom of the screen as the line at the top disappears. To scroll up and down using a mouse, the user would place the mouse cursor on the scroll bar (a sliding rectangular button located on the right of the display), or on a stationary arrow button at either the top or bottom of the frame. In using the arrow button, the user would position the cursor on the button, left click, and hold the mouse button down. The contents of the screen will move up or down accordingly. To scroll using the sliding button, the user would place the mouse cursor on the button, left click the mouse, and leave the button pressed while moving the mouse either up or down. This causes the screen contents to move at the same speed as the mouse. To scroll using the arrow keys, a user simply presses the key that corresponds to the desired direction of the screen contents.
