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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