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| 2 | |
| 3 | = Acronym Definitions = |
| 4 | |
| 5 | == Magical Acronyms == |
| 6 | ||'''Acronym'''||'''Description'''||'''URL'''||'''Identified URL'''|| |
| 7 | ||IETF||Internet Engineering Task Force||http://www.ietf.org/|||| |
| 8 | ||RFC||IETF Request For Comment $1||http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html||http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc$1.txt|| |
| 9 | |
| 10 | == Technical Acronyms == |
| 11 | ||'''Acronym'''||'''Description'''|| |
| 12 | ||ADSL||Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line|| |
| 13 | ||AGP||Accelerated Graphics Port|| |
| 14 | ||AIFF||Audio Interchange File Format|| |
| 15 | ||AIX||Advanced Interactive Executive|| |
| 16 | ||ANSI||American National Standards Institute|| |
| 17 | ||API||Application Program Interface|| |
| 18 | ||ASCII||American Standard Code for Information Interchange|| |
| 19 | ||ASP||Active Server Page or Application Service Provider|| |
| 20 | ||ATA||Advanced Technology Attachment|| |
| 21 | ||ATM||Asynchronous Transfer Mode|| |
| 22 | ||BASIC||Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code|| |
| 23 | ||BIOS||Basic Input/Output System|| |
| 24 | ||BMP||Bitmap|| |
| 25 | ||CAD||Computer-Aided Design|| |
| 26 | ||CCD||Charged Coupled Device|| |
| 27 | ||CD||Compact Disc|| |
| 28 | ||CDR||Compact Disc Recordable|| |
| 29 | ||CDROM||Compact Disc Read-Only Memory|| |
| 30 | ||CDRW||Compact Disc Re-Writable|| |
| 31 | ||CDMA||Code Division Multiple Access|| |
| 32 | ||CGI||Common Gateway Interface|| |
| 33 | ||CISC||Complex Instruction Set Computing|| |
| 34 | ||CMOS||Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor|| |
| 35 | ||CMYK||Cyan Magenta Yellow Black|| |
| 36 | ||CPA||Cost Per Action|| |
| 37 | ||CPC||Cost Per Click|| |
| 38 | ||CPL||Cost Per Lead|| |
| 39 | ||CPM||Cost Per 1,000 Impressions|| |
| 40 | ||CPU||Central Processing Unit|| |
| 41 | ||CRM||Customer Relationship Management|| |
| 42 | ||CRT||Cathode Ray Tube|| |
| 43 | ||CSS||Cascading Style Sheet|| |
| 44 | ||CTP||Composite Theoretical Performance|| |
| 45 | ||CTR||Click-Through Rate|| |
| 46 | ||DBMS||Database Management System|| |
| 47 | ||DDR||Double Data Rate|| |
| 48 | ||DDR2||Double Data Rate 2|| |
| 49 | ||DHCP||Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol|| |
| 50 | ||DIMM||Dual In-Line Memory Module|| |
| 51 | ||DLL||Dynamic Link Library|| |
| 52 | ||DMA||Direct Memory Access|| |
| 53 | ||DNS||Domain Name System|| |
| 54 | ||DRM||Digital Rights Management|| |
| 55 | ||DSL||Digital Subscriber Line|| |
| 56 | ||DSLAM||Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer|| |
| 57 | ||DTD||Document Type Definition|| |
| 58 | ||DV||Digital Video|| |
| 59 | ||DVD||Digital Versatile Disc|| |
| 60 | ||DVDR||Digital Versatile Disc Recordable|| |
| 61 | ||DVDRW||Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable|| |
| 62 | ||DVDR||Digital Versatile Disc Recordable|| |
| 63 | ||DVDRAM||Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory|| |
| 64 | ||DVDRW||Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable|| |
| 65 | ||DVI||Digital Video Interface|| |
| 66 | ||DVR||Digital Video Recorder|| |
| 67 | ||EPS||Encapsulated PostScript|| |
| 68 | ||EUP||Enterprise Unified Process|| |
| 69 | ||FAQ||Frequently Asked Questions|| |
| 70 | ||FiOS||Fiber Optic Service|| |
| 71 | ||FPU||Floating Point Unit|| |
| 72 | ||FSB||Frontside Bus|| |
| 73 | ||FTP||File Transfer Protocol|| |
| 74 | ||GIF||Graphics Interchange Format|| |
| 75 | ||GIGO||Garbage In, Garbage Out|| |
| 76 | ||GIS||Geographic Information Systems|| |
| 77 | ||GPS||Global Positioning System|| |
| 78 | ||GPU||Graphics Processing Unit|| |
| 79 | ||GUI||Graphical User Interface|| |
| 80 | ||HDTV||High Definition Televsion|| |
| 81 | ||HDV||High-Definition Video|| |
| 82 | ||HFS||Hierarchical File System|| |
| 83 | ||HTML||Hyper-Text Markup Language|| |
| 84 | ||HTTP||HyperText Transfer Protocol|| |
| 85 | ||IO||Input/Output|| |
| 86 | ||ICF||Internet Connection Firewall|| |
| 87 | ||ICS||Internet Connection Sharing|| |
| 88 | ||IDE||Integrated Device Electronics|| |
| 89 | ||IEEE||Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|| |
| 90 | ||IM||Instant Message|| |
| 91 | ||IMAP||Internet Message Access Protocol|| |
| 92 | ||InterNIC||Internet Network Information Center|| |
| 93 | ||IP||Internet Protocol|| |
| 94 | ||IPX||Internetwork Packet Exchange|| |
| 95 | ||IRC||Internet Relay Chat|| |
| 96 | ||IRQ||Interrupt Request|| |
| 97 | ||ISA||Industry Standard Architecture|| |
| 98 | ||ISDN||Integrated Services Digital Network|| |
| 99 | ||ISO||International Organization for Standardization|| |
| 100 | ||ISP||Internet Service Provider|| |
| 101 | ||IT||Information Technology|| |
| 102 | ||IVR||Interactive Voice Response|| |
| 103 | ||JPEG||Joint Photographic Experts Group|| |
| 104 | ||JSP||Java Server Page|| |
| 105 | ||Kbps||Kilobits Per Second|| |
| 106 | ||LAN||Local Area Network|| |
| 107 | ||LCD||Liquid Crystal Display|| |
| 108 | ||LDAP||Lightweight Directory Access Protocol|| |
| 109 | ||LPI||Lines Per Inch|| |
| 110 | ||MAC||Address Media Access Control Address|| |
| 111 | ||Mbps||Megabits Per Second|| |
| 112 | ||MCA||Micro Channel Architecture|| |
| 113 | ||MIDI||Musical Instrument Digital Interface|| |
| 114 | ||MIPS||Million Instructions Per Second|| |
| 115 | ||MP3||MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3|| |
| 116 | ||MPEG||Moving Picture Experts Group|| |
| 117 | ||NAT||Network Address Translation|| |
| 118 | ||NetBIOS||Network Basic Input/Output System|| |
| 119 | ||NIC||Network Interface Card|| |
| 120 | ||NNTP||Network News Transfer Protocol|| |
| 121 | ||NOC||Network Operations Center|| |
| 122 | ||NTFS||New Technology File System|| |
| 123 | ||OCR||Optical Character Recognition|| |
| 124 | ||ODBC||Open Database Connectivity|| |
| 125 | ||OEM||Original Equipment Manufacturer|| |
| 126 | ||OLAP||Online Analytical Processing|| |
| 127 | ||OLE||Object Linking and Embedding|| |
| 128 | ||OSPF||Open Shortest Path First|| |
| 129 | ||P2P||Peer To Peer|| |
| 130 | ||PCB||Printed Circuit Board|| |
| 131 | ||PCI||Peripheral Component Interconnect|| |
| 132 | ||PCMCIA||Personal Computer Memory Card International Association|| |
| 133 | ||PDA||Personal Digital Assistant|| |
| 134 | ||PDF||Portable Document Format|| |
| 135 | ||PHP||Hypertext Preprocessor|| |
| 136 | ||PIM||Personal Information Manager|| |
| 137 | ||PNG||Portable Network Graphic|| |
| 138 | ||POP3||Post Office Protocol|| |
| 139 | ||PPC||Pay Per Click|| |
| 140 | ||PPGA||Plastic Pin Grid Array|| |
| 141 | ||PPP||Point to Point Protocol|| |
| 142 | ||PRAM||Parameter Random Access Memory|| |
| 143 | ||RAID||Redundant Array of Independent Disks|| |
| 144 | ||RAM||Random Access Memory|| |
| 145 | ||RDRAM||Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory|| |
| 146 | ||RGB||Red Green Blue|| |
| 147 | ||RISC||Reduced Instruction Set Computing|| |
| 148 | ||ROM||Read-Only Memory|| |
| 149 | ||RSS||RDF Site Summary|| |
| 150 | ||RTF||Rich Text Fomat|| |
| 151 | ||RUP||Rational Unified Process|| |
| 152 | ||SATA||Serial Advanced Technology Attachment|| |
| 153 | ||SCSI||Small Computer System Interface|| |
| 154 | ||SD||Secure Digital|| |
| 155 | ||SDRAM||Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory|| |
| 156 | ||SDSL||Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line|| |
| 157 | ||SEO||Search Engine Optimization|| |
| 158 | ||SIMM||Single In-Line Memory Module|| |
| 159 | ||SMART||Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology|| |
| 160 | ||SMS||Short Message Service|| |
| 161 | ||SMTP||Simple Mail Transfer Protocol|| |
| 162 | ||SOAP||Simple Object Access Protocol|| |
| 163 | ||SQL||Structured Query Language|| |
| 164 | ||sRGB||Standard Red Green Blue|| |
| 165 | ||SSL||Secure Sockets Layer|| |
| 166 | ||TCPIP||Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol|| |
| 167 | ||TFT||Thin-Film Transistor|| |
| 168 | ||TIFF||Tagged Image File Format|| |
| 169 | ||TTL||Time To Live|| |
| 170 | ||TWAIN||Toolkit Without An Informative Name|| |
| 171 | ||UDP||User Datagram Protocol|| |
| 172 | ||UML||Unified Modeling Language|| |
| 173 | ||UNC||Universal Naming Convention|| |
| 174 | ||URI||Universal Resource Identifier|| |
| 175 | ||URL||Uniform Resource Locator|| |
| 176 | ||USB||Universal Serial Bus|| |
| 177 | ||VCI||Virtual Channel Identifier|| |
| 178 | ||VFAT||Virtual File Allocation Table|| |
| 179 | ||VGA||Video Graphics Array|| |
| 180 | ||VLB||VESA Local Bus|| |
| 181 | ||VoIP||Voice Over Internet Protocol|| |
| 182 | ||VPI||Virtual Path Identifier|| |
| 183 | ||VPN||Virtual Private Network|| |
| 184 | ||VRAM||Video Random Access Memory|| |
| 185 | ||VRML||Virtual Reality Modeling Language|| |
| 186 | ||WAIS||Wide Area Information Server|| |
| 187 | ||WAN||Wide Area Network|| |
| 188 | ||WEP||Wired Equivalent Privacy|| |
| 189 | ||WiFi||Wireless Fidelity|| |
| 190 | ||WPA||Wi-Fi Protected Access|| |
| 191 | ||WWW||World Wide Web|| |
| 192 | ||XHTML||Extensible Hypertext Markup Language|| |
| 193 | ||XML||Extensible Markup Language|| |
| 194 | ||Y2K||Year 2000|| |
| 195 | ||ZIF||Zero Insertion Force|| |
| 196 | |
| 197 | == Colourful Acronyms == |
| 198 | ||'''Acronym'''||'''Description'''|| |
| 199 | ||AAMOF||As a matter of fact...|| |
| 200 | ||AFAICR||As far as I can remember...|| |
| 201 | ||AFAIK||As far as I know...|| |
| 202 | ||AFK||Away from keyboard.|| |
| 203 | ||AKA||Also known as...|| |
| 204 | ||BAK||Back at keyboard.|| |
| 205 | ||BBIAF||Be back in a few.|| |
| 206 | ||BBIAFM||Be back in a few minutes.|| |
| 207 | ||BBIAM||Be back in a minute.|| |
| 208 | ||BBL||Be back later.|| |
| 209 | ||BBS||Be back soon.|| |
| 210 | ||BRB||Be right back.|| |
| 211 | ||BTW||By the way...|| |
| 212 | ||CU||See you.|| |
| 213 | ||CUL8R||See you later.|| |
| 214 | ||CUL||See you later.|| |
| 215 | ||DIIK||Damned if I know!|| |
| 216 | ||EOL||Eurkhing out loud.|| |
| 217 | ||FOAD||F**k off and die!|| |
| 218 | ||FOAF||Friend of a friend.|| |
| 219 | ||FOTCL||Falling out the chair laughing!|| |
| 220 | ||FTF||Face-to-face.|| |
| 221 | ||FWIW||For what it's worth...|| |
| 222 | ||FUBAR||F**ked up beyond all recognition|| |
| 223 | ||FYA||For your amusement...|| |
| 224 | ||FYI||For your information...|| |
| 225 | ||GFY||Go f**k yourself!|| |
| 226 | ||GMTA||Great minds think alike!|| |
| 227 | ||GTG||Got to go.|| |
| 228 | ||HHOJ||Ha-ha, only joking!|| |
| 229 | ||HHOK||Ha-ha, only kidding!|| |
| 230 | ||IAC||In any case...|| |
| 231 | ||IAE||In any event...|| |
| 232 | ||IMAO||In my arrogant opinion...|| |
| 233 | ||IMHO||In my humble opinion...|| |
| 234 | ||IMNSHO||In my not-so-humble opinion...|| |
| 235 | ||IMO||In my opinion...|| |
| 236 | ||IOW||In other words...|| |
| 237 | ||IRL||In real life.|| |
| 238 | ||L8R||Later|| |
| 239 | ||LMAO||Laughing my ass off!|| |
| 240 | ||LOL||Laughing out loud!|| |
| 241 | ||LTNS||Long time no see!|| |
| 242 | ||LTNT||Long time no type!|| |
| 243 | ||MOTAS||Member of the appropriate sex.|| |
| 244 | ||MOTD||Message of the day.|| |
| 245 | ||MOTOS||Member of the opposite sex.|| |
| 246 | ||MOTSS||Member of the same sex.|| |
| 247 | ||NBD||No big deal!|| |
| 248 | ||NM||Nevermind.|| |
| 249 | ||NP||No problem.|| |
| 250 | ||NRN||No response necessary.|| |
| 251 | ||OIC||Oh, I see.|| |
| 252 | ||OTB||Oh, to bed.|| |
| 253 | ||OTOH||On the other hand...|| |
| 254 | ||OTW||On the way.|| |
| 255 | ||PITA||Pain in the ass.|| |
| 256 | ||PMJ||Pardon my jumping in.|| |
| 257 | ||POV||Point of view.|| |
| 258 | ||RL||Real life.|| |
| 259 | ||ROFL||Rolling on the floor laughing!|| |
| 260 | ||ROFLMAO||Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off!|| |
| 261 | ||RSN||Real soon now.|| |
| 262 | ||RTFM||Read the f**king manual!|| |
| 263 | ||RTM||Read the manual!|| |
| 264 | ||SIFOTCN||Sitting in front of the computer naked.|| |
| 265 | ||SITD||Still in the dark.|| |
| 266 | ||TANSTAAFL||There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!|| |
| 267 | ||TIA||Thanks in advance.|| |
| 268 | ||TIC||Tongue in cheek.|| |
| 269 | ||TTFN||Ta-ta for know!|| |
| 270 | ||TTYL||Talk to you later!|| |
| 271 | ||WB||Welcome back!|| |
| 272 | ||WTF||What the f**k?|| |
| 273 | ||WTG||Way to go!|| |
| 274 | ||WTH||What the hell?|| |
| 275 | |
| 276 | == Examples == |
| 277 | |
| 278 | RFC1630, RFC, IETF, ROFL |