[[PageOutline]] = Acronym Definitions = These acronyms are automatically converted into HTML elements by the AcronymsPlugin. == Magical Acronyms == ||'''Acronym'''||'''Description'''||'''URL'''||'''Identified URL'''|| ||IETF||Internet Engineering Task Force||http://www.ietf.org/|||| ||RFC||IETF Request For Comment $1||http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html||http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc$1.txt|| == Technical Acronyms == ||'''Acronym'''||'''Description'''|| ||ADSL||Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line|| ||AGP||Accelerated Graphics Port|| ||AIFF||Audio Interchange File Format|| ||AIX||Advanced Interactive Executive|| ||ANSI||American National Standards Institute|| ||API||Application Program Interface|| ||ASCII||American Standard Code for Information Interchange|| ||ASP||Active Server Page or Application Service Provider|| ||ATA||Advanced Technology Attachment|| ||ATM||Asynchronous Transfer Mode|| ||BASIC||Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code|| ||BIOS||Basic Input/Output System|| ||BMP||Bitmap|| ||BTS||Bug Tracking System|| ||CAD||Computer-Aided Design|| ||CCD||Charged Coupled Device|| ||CDMA||Code Division Multiple Access|| ||CDROM||Compact Disc Read-Only Memory|| ||CDRW||Compact Disc Re-Writable|| ||CDR||Compact Disc Recordable|| ||CD||Compact Disc|| ||CGI||Common Gateway Interface|| ||CISC||Complex Instruction Set Computing|| ||CMOS||Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor|| ||CMYK||Cyan Magenta Yellow Black|| ||CPA||Cost Per Action|| ||CPC||Cost Per Click|| ||CPL||Cost Per Lead|| ||CPM||Cost Per 1,000 Impressions|| ||CPU||Central Processing Unit|| ||CRM||Customer Relationship Management|| ||CRT||Cathode Ray Tube|| ||CRUD||Create, Read, Update, and Delete|| ||CSS||Cascading Style Sheet|| ||CTP||Composite Theoretical Performance|| ||CTR||Click-Through Rate|| ||DBMS||Database Management System|| ||DDR2||Double Data Rate 2|| ||DDR||Double Data Rate|| ||DHCP||Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol|| ||DIMM||Dual In-Line Memory Module|| ||DLL||Dynamic Link Library|| ||DMA||Direct Memory Access|| ||DNS||Domain Name System|| ||DRM||Digital Rights Management|| ||DSLAM||Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer|| ||DSL||Digital Subscriber Line|| ||DTD||Document Type Definition|| ||DVDRAM||Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory|| ||DVDRW||Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable|| ||DVDRW||Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable|| ||DVDR||Digital Versatile Disc Recordable|| ||DVDR||Digital Versatile Disc Recordable|| ||DVD||Digital Versatile Disc|| ||DVI||Digital Video Interface|| ||DVR||Digital Video Recorder|| ||DV||Digital Video|| ||EPS||Encapsulated PostScript|| ||EUP||Enterprise Unified Process|| ||FAQ||Frequently Asked Questions|| ||FPU||Floating Point Unit|| ||FSB||Frontside Bus|| ||FTP||File Transfer Protocol|| ||FiOS||Fiber Optic Service|| ||GIF||Graphics Interchange Format|| ||GIGO||Garbage In, Garbage Out|| ||GIS||Geographic Information Systems|| ||GPS||Global Positioning System|| ||GPU||Graphics Processing Unit|| ||GUI||Graphical User Interface|| ||HDTV||High Definition Televsion|| ||HDV||High-Definition Video|| ||HFS||Hierarchical File System|| ||HTML||Hyper-Text Markup Language|| ||HTTP||HyperText Transfer Protocol|| ||ICF||Internet Connection Firewall|| ||ICS||Internet Connection Sharing|| ||IDE||Integrated Device Electronics|| ||IEEE||Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|| ||IMAP||Internet Message Access Protocol|| ||IM||Instant Message|| ||IO||Input/Output|| ||IPX||Internetwork Packet Exchange|| ||IP||Internet Protocol|| ||IRC||Internet Relay Chat|| ||IRQ||Interrupt Request|| ||ISA||Industry Standard Architecture|| ||ISDN||Integrated Services Digital Network|| ||ISO||International Organization for Standardization|| ||ISP||Internet Service Provider|| ||IT||Information Technology|| ||IVR||Interactive Voice Response|| ||InterNIC||Internet Network Information Center|| ||JPEG||Joint Photographic Experts Group|| ||JSP||Java Server Page|| ||Kbps||Kilobits Per Second|| ||LAN||Local Area Network|| ||LCD||Liquid Crystal Display|| ||LDAP||Lightweight Directory Access Protocol|| ||LPI||Lines Per Inch|| ||MAC||Address Media Access Control Address|| ||MCA||Micro Channel Architecture|| ||MIDI||Musical Instrument Digital Interface|| ||MIPS||Million Instructions Per Second|| ||MP3||MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3|| ||MPEG||Moving Picture Experts Group|| ||Mbps||Megabits Per Second|| ||NAT||Network Address Translation|| ||NIC||Network Interface Card|| ||NNTP||Network News Transfer Protocol|| ||NOC||Network Operations Center|| ||NTFS||New Technology File System|| ||NetBIOS||Network Basic Input/Output System|| ||OCR||Optical Character Recognition|| ||ODBC||Open Database Connectivity|| ||OEM||Original Equipment Manufacturer|| ||OLAP||Online Analytical Processing|| ||OLE||Object Linking and Embedding|| ||OSPF||Open Shortest Path First|| ||P2P||Peer To Peer|| ||PCB||Printed Circuit Board|| ||PCI||Peripheral Component Interconnect|| ||PCMCIA||Personal Computer Memory Card International Association|| ||PDA||Personal Digital Assistant|| ||PDF||Portable Document Format|| ||PHP||Hypertext Preprocessor|| ||PIM||Personal Information Manager|| ||PNG||Portable Network Graphic|| ||POD||Plain Old Document (Perl)|| ||POP3||Post Office Protocol|| ||PPC||Pay Per Click|| ||PPGA||Plastic Pin Grid Array|| ||PPP||Point to Point Protocol|| ||PRAM||Parameter Random Access Memory|| ||RAID||Redundant Array of Independent Disks|| ||RAM||Random Access Memory|| ||RDF||Resource Description Framework|| ||RDRAM||Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory|| ||REST||Representational State Transfer|| ||RGB||Red Green Blue|| ||RISC||Reduced Instruction Set Computing|| ||ROM||Read-Only Memory|| ||RPC||Remote Procedure Call|| ||RSS||RDF Site Summary|| ||RTF||Rich Text Fomat|| ||RUP||Rational Unified Process|| ||SATA||Serial Advanced Technology Attachment|| ||SCSI||Small Computer System Interface|| ||SDRAM||Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory|| ||SDSL||Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line|| ||SD||Secure Digital|| ||SEO||Search Engine Optimization|| ||SIMM||Single In-Line Memory Module|| ||SMART||Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology|| ||SMS||Short Message Service|| ||SMTP||Simple Mail Transfer Protocol|| ||SOAP||Simple Object Access Protocol|| ||SQL||Structured Query Language|| ||SSL||Secure Sockets Layer|| ||TCPIP||Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol|| ||TFT||Thin-Film Transistor|| ||TIFF||Tagged Image File Format|| ||TTL||Time To Live|| ||TWAIN||Toolkit Without An Informative Name|| ||UDP||User Datagram Protocol|| ||UML||Unified Modeling Language|| ||UNC||Universal Naming Convention|| ||URI||Universal Resource Identifier|| ||URL||Uniform Resource Locator|| ||USB||Universal Serial Bus|| ||VCI||Virtual Channel Identifier|| ||VCS||Version Control System|| ||VFAT||Virtual File Allocation Table|| ||VGA||Video Graphics Array|| ||VLB||VESA Local Bus|| ||VPI||Virtual Path Identifier|| ||VPN||Virtual Private Network|| ||VRAM||Video Random Access Memory|| ||VRML||Virtual Reality Modeling Language|| ||VoIP||Voice Over Internet Protocol|| ||WAIS||Wide Area Information Server|| ||WAN||Wide Area Network|| ||WEP||Wired Equivalent Privacy|| ||WPA||Wi-Fi Protected Access|| ||WWW||World Wide Web|| ||WiFi||Wireless Fidelity|| ||XHTML||Extensible Hypertext Markup Language|| ||XML||Extensible Markup Language|| ||Y2K||Year 2000|| ||ZIF||Zero Insertion Force|| ||sRGB||Standard Red Green Blue|| == Colourful Acronyms == ||'''Acronym'''||'''Description'''|| ||AAMOF||As a matter of fact...|| ||AFAICR||As far as I can remember...|| ||AFAIK||As far as I know...|| ||AFK||Away from keyboard.|| ||AKA||Also known as...|| ||AOL||America On Line|| ||BAK||Back at keyboard.|| ||BBFN||Bye bye for now|| ||BBIAB||Be back in a bit.|| ||BBIAFM||Be back in a few minutes.|| ||BBIAF||Be back in a few.|| ||BBIAM||Be back in a minute.|| ||BBL||Be back later.|| ||BBS||Be back soon.|| ||BFN||Bye for now|| ||BRB||Be right back.|| ||BTW||By the way...|| ||BYKT||But you knew that|| ||CMIIW||Correct me if I'm wrong|| ||CUL8R||See you later.|| ||CUL||See you later.|| ||CU||See you.|| ||DIIK||Damned if I know!|| ||EOL||End of line/lecture|| ||ETLA||Extended Three Letter Acronym|| ||FITB||Fill in the blank|| ||FOAD||F**k off and die!|| ||FOAF||Friend of a friend.|| ||FOTCL||Falling out the chair laughing!|| ||FTF||Face-to-face.|| ||FUBAR||F**ked up beyond all recognition|| ||FWIW||For what it's worth...|| ||FYA||For your amusement...|| ||FYI||For your information...|| ||GFY||Go f**k yourself!|| ||GMTA||Great minds think alike!|| ||GTG||Got to go.|| ||HHOJ||Ha-ha, only joking!|| ||HHOK||Ha-ha, only kidding!|| ||HTH||Hope this helps|| ||IAC||In any case...|| ||IAE||In any event...|| ||ICL||In Christian love|| ||IMAO||In my arrogant opinion...|| ||IMCO||In my considered opinion|| ||IMHO||In my humble opinion...|| ||IMNSHO||In my not-so-humble opinion...|| ||IMO||In my opinion...|| ||IOW||In other words...|| ||IRL||In real life.|| ||L8R||Later|| ||LMAO||Laughing my arse off!|| ||LOL||Laughing out loud!|| ||LTNS||Long time no see!|| ||LTNT||Long time no type!|| ||MGB||May God bless|| ||MHOTY||My hat's off to you|| ||MOTAS||Member of the appropriate sex.|| ||MOTD||Message of the day.|| ||MOTOS||Member of the opposite sex.|| ||MOTSS||Member of the same sex.|| ||NBD||No big deal!|| ||NM||Nevermind.|| ||NP||No problem.|| ||NRN||No response necessary.|| ||NTMK||Not to My Knowledge|| ||OIC||Oh, I see.|| ||OTB||Oh, to bed.|| ||OTOH||On the other hand...|| ||OTW||On the way.|| ||PITA||Pain in the arse.|| ||PMJ||Pardon my jumping in.|| ||POV||Point of view.|| ||RL||Real life.|| ||ROFLMAO||Rolling on the floor laughing my arse off!|| ||ROFL||Rolling on the floor laughing!|| ||ROF||Rolling on the floor|| ||ROTFL||Rolling on the floor laughing|| ||RSN||Real soon now.|| ||RTFM||Read the f**king manual!|| ||RTM||Read the manual!|| ||SIFOTCN||Sitting in front of the computer naked.|| ||SITD||Still in the dark.|| ||TANSTAAFL||There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!|| ||TIA||Thanks in advance.|| ||TIC||Tongue in cheek.|| ||TLA||Three Letter Acronym|| ||TTFN||Ta-ta for now!|| ||TTYL||Talk to you later!|| ||TYVM||Thank you very much|| ||WB||Welcome back!|| ||WTF||What the f**k?|| ||WTG||Way to go!|| ||WTH||What the hell?|| ||WYSIWYG||what you see is what you get|| ||YMMV||Your mileage may vary|| == Examples == RFC1630, RFC, IETF, ROFL WTG