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.
Server
a network computer (and/or software) that performs a wide variety of functions such as delivering data to client computers. Servers store and deliver, upon demand, files to other computers on the network. A Web server, for example, stores Web pages that are simply files. When a Web browser, prompted by a user, sends a request for a particular page, the server calls up the file from its hard disk and sends it to the browser over the network. Web servers need to have large data storage disks to store multiple pages. The term also refers to computers other than Web servers. A server on a LAN might maintain files needed exclusively by the users of that network, while an e-commerce server would maintain and deliver data essential to the transfer of funds for commercial transactions on the Internet.
