AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
AOL - American Online
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASL - Age, Sex, Location
ASP - Active Server Pages
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AVI - Audio Video Interleaved
B2B - Business To Business
B2C - Business To Customer
BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BBS - Bulletin Board System
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System
BPS - Bits Per Second
BRB - Be Right Back
BTA - But Then Again
BTW - By The Way
CAD - Computer Aided Design
CAE - Computer Aided Engineering
CAM - Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAS - Computer Aided Software Engineering
CCITT - Consultative Committee for International Telephony and Telegraphy
CD-I - Compact Disc Interactive
CD-R - Compact Disc Re-writeable
CD-ROM - Compact Disc Read Only Memory
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
CHAP - Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
CISC - Complex Instruction Set Computing
CMYK - Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black
COB - Close Of Business
CODEC - Compression/Decompression
CPU - Central Processing Unit
DAT - Digital Audio Tape
DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation
DES - Data Encryption Standard
DHTML - Dynamic HyperText Markup Language
DoS - Denial of Service
DOS - Disk Operating System
DPI - Dots Per Inch
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
DSP - Digital Signal Processor
DTP - Desktop Publishing
DVD - Digital Video Disk
DVI - Digital Interactive Video
EDO - Extended Data Output
EISA - Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EOD - End Of Day
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
FWIW - For What It's Worth
FPS - Frames Per Second [video]
FPU - Floating Point Unit
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FYA - For Your Amusement
FYI - For Your Information
GB - Gigabyte (1,000 megabytes)
GIF - Graphic Interchange Format
GIGO - Garbage In - Garbage Out
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
GMTA - Great Minds Think Alike
GUI - Graphical User Interface
HDTV - High Definition Television
HP - Hewlett-Packard
HTML - HyperText Markup Language
HTTP - HyperText Transport Protocol
Hz - Hertz
ICR - Intelligent Character Recognition
IDC - Internet Data Center
IDE - Intergrated Drive Electronics
IMAP - Interactive Mail Access Protocol
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
I/O - Input/Output
IP - Internet Protocol
IPO - Initial Public Offering
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
IRQ - Interrupt Request Line
IS - Information System
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture
ISDN - Intergrated Services Digital Network
ISP - Internet Service Provider
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
KBPS - Kilobits Per Second
K/sec. - Kilobytes Per Second
K or KB - Kilobyte
kHz - Kilohertz
LAN - Local Area Network
LAT - Local Area Transport (protocol developed by DEC)
LMAO - Laughing My Ass Off
LOL - Laughing Out Loud
MB - Megabyte
Mbit/sec. - Megabits Per Second
MB/sec. - Megabytes Per Second
MCA - Micro Channel Architecture [IBM's]
MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
MHz - Megahertz
MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MIS - Management Information Systems
MPC - Multimedia PC (a standard)
MPEG - Motion Picture Experts Group
MRC - Monthly Recurring Charge
ms - Millisecond (one-thousandth of a second)
MS - Microsoft
MSIE - Microsoft Internet Explorer
NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NLM - Netware-Loadable Module
NRC - Non Recurring Charge
ns - Nanosecond (one-billionth of a second)
NTSC - National Televison Standards Committee
OCR - Optical Character Recognition
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OLAP - OnLine Analytical Processor
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding
OMG - Oh My God
OS - Operating System
OTOH - On The Other Hand
PAP - Password Authentication Protocol
PC - Personal Computer
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCS - Personal Communications Service
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PDF - Portable Document Format
PGP - Pretty Good Privacy
PIM - Personal Information Manager
PIN - Personal Identification Number
PMN - Private Managed Network
PNG - Portable Network Graphic
POP - Post Office Protocol
POV - 1. Point Of View, 2. Privately Owned Vehicle
PPM - Pages Per Minutes
PPP - Point-to-Point Protocol
PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory
QA - Quality Assurance
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives
RAM - Random Access Memory
RDBMS - Relational DataBase Management System
RFP - Request For Proposal
RGB - Red-Green-Blue [video display]
RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computing
RMC - Recurring Monthly Charge
ROI - Return On Investment
ROM - Read Only Memory
ROTFL - Rolling On The Floor Laughing
SAP - Second Audio Program
SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface
SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (based on SONET)
SDK - Software Development Kit
SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
SIG - Special Interest Group
SIMM - Single In-Line Memory Module
SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
SOHO - Small Office/Home Office
SQL - Structured Query Language
STM - Synchronous Tranport Module
SVGA - Super VGA
SYSOP - System Operator
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TSR - Terminate and Stay Resident [software program]
UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply
URL - Universal Resource Locator
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair [wiring]
VAR - Value Added Reseller
VESA - Video Electronics Standards Association
VDT - Video Display Terminal
VGA - Video Graphics Array
VPN - Virtual Private Network
VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language
W - Watt
WAIS - Wide-Area Information Servers
WAN - Wide Area Network
WORM - Write Once/Read Many [optical disk]
WINTEL - Windows-Intel (not an acronym, but a combination of names)
WWW - World Wide Web, W3
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
XML - Extensible Markup Language
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