The Incomplete Guide to Common Web Acronyms
by Jason M. DesRoches
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The Incomplete Guide to Common Web Acronyms by Jason M. DesRoches http://www.bigresources.com |
Acronyms, they can be found pretty much everywhere, and the Internet is no exception. It's pretty easy to get lost in all the shortcuts that some people just take for granted as "common knowledge". So the next time you get an email with a strange string of letters that that you just don't understand, remember our list of common web acronyms. Press cntrl-d now so bookmark this page for later.
The below acronyms are commonly
overheard by webmasters, computers techs, and network engineers. Don't
get lost in the language. Learn this page!
| Developer & Technical Acronyms |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| ARC | Address Resolution Client |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASP | Active Server Page |
| BASIC | Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BCC | Blind Carbon Copy |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| BPS | Bits Per Second |
| BMP | Bitmap |
| CAD | Computer-Aided Design |
| CC | Carbon Copy |
| CD ROM | Compact Disk Read Only Memory |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CODEC | Compression/Decompression Module |
| COBOL | Common Business Oriented Language |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheet |
| DBMS | Database Management System |
| DHTML | Dynamic Hyper-Text Markup Language |
| DIMM | Dual In-Line Memory Module |
| DLL | Dynamic Link Library |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
| DVD | Digital Video Disk |
| Electronic Mail | |
| EXE | Executable (File Name Extension) |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FIFO | First In, First Out |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GIF | Graphic Interchange Format |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| ICQ | I Seek You |
| IE | Internet Explorer |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| IRQ | Interrupt Request |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | Information Technology |
| JPG/JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| JDK | Java Development Kit |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LINUX | Linus Torvald's UNIX |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MODEM | MOdulator, DEModulator |
| MP3 | Moving Picture Experts Group Layer-3 Audio |
| MPG/MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group |
| NOC | Network Operations Center |
| OLE | Object Linking & Embedding |
| PING | Packet Internet Groper |
| POP | Point of Presence or Post Office Protocol |
| PPP | Point to Point Protocol |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |
| NN | Netscape Navigator |
| NNTP | Network News Transport Protocol |
| PERL | Practical Extraction Real Language |
| PHP | Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PIXEL | Picture Element |
| PSP | Paint Shop Pro |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| RDBMS | Relational Database Management System |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| SSH | Secured Shell |
| SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol |
| SMDS | Switched Multimegabit Data Service |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SQL | Standard Query Language |
| SSI | Server Side Includes |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SWF | Shockwave File Extension |
| TCL | Tool Command Language |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TTL | Time To Live (TCP) |
| TLD | Top Level Domain |
| UNIX | Uniplexed Information and Computer Systems |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| UUENCODE | Unix to Unix Encoding |
| WAIS | Wide Area Information Servers |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAV | Windows Audio Volume |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| XHTML | Extensible HyperText Markup Language |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
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