Technical Acronyms


Technical:

ARP -
"Address Resolution Protocol"
ARQ -
"Automatic Repeat Request"
BBS -
"Bulletin Board Software" and "Bulletin Board System"
BSD -
"Berkeley Software Distribution"
CGI -
"Comman Gateway Interface"
DES -
"Data Encryption Standard"
DNS -
" Domain Name Service"
UDP -
"User Datagram Protocol"
FAQ -
"Frequently asked questions"
FTP -
"File Transfer Protocol" (now often seen in lower case as "ftp")
GMT -
"Greenwich Mean Time"
GNU -
"GNU is Not Unix (recursive)"
GUI -
"Graphical Users Interface"
HTML -
"HyperText Markup Language"
HTTP -
"HyperText Transfer Protocol"
IRC -
"Internet Relay Chat"
ISP -
"Internet Service Provider"
IO -
"Input Output" As in file IO.
LAN -
"Local Area Network"
NTP -
"Network Time Protocol"
NNTP -
"Network News Transfer Protocol"
MDA -
"Mail Delivery Agent"
MIME -
"Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions"
MOSFET -
"Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor"
MUD -
"Multiple User Dungeon" an interactive multiuser game
OSF -
"Open Software Foundation"
PERL -
"Pratical Extraction and Reporting Language" or "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister""
PPP -
"Point-to-Point Protocol"
PINE -
"Pine Is Not Elm"
RARP -
"Reverse Address Resolution Protocol"
RFC -
"Request For Comments"
RTF -
"Rich Text Format"
TCP/IP -
"Transmissions Control Protocol/Internet Protocol"
TIA -
"The Internet Adaptor"
TTY -
"Tele-TYpe"
SLIP -
"Serial Line Internet Protocol"
SMTP -
"Simple Mail Transfer Protocol"
SGML -
"Standard Generalized Markup Language"
SWISH -
"Simple Web Indexing System for Humans"
WAN -
"Wide Area Networks "
WAIS -
"Wide Area Information Server "
WWW or 3W -
"World Wide Web "
URL -
"Uniform Resource Locator"

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