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.
Windows
(Microsoft Windows) the operating system developed by Microsoft that became popular in the early 1990s utilizing graphical user interface technol-ogy. The early versions ran using DOS as a platform. In the 1980s Microsoft offered Windows versions 1 and 2 but they never caught on. In 1990, the com-pany introduced the Windows 3 series, which revolutionized the software in-dustry allowing users a wide variety of computing options.
