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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WebTV

the ability to access the World Wide Web using a television and telephone or cable lines. Web pages viewed in this way are occasionally slightly distorted. WebTV is an easy way to access the Internet. However, computer functions such as the ability to download programs, and post to message boards is not available with WebTV.