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LAN
— Local Area Network
N/A
— Not Applicable
PST
— Please Send Tell
USA
— United States of America
ARPANET
— Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (early internet)
DOB
— Date Of Birth
IQ
— Intelligence Quotient
MSG
— Message
Y/N
— Yes/No
FCFS
— First Come First Served
BBS
— Bulletin Board Service
YABSA
— Yet Another Bloody Stupid Acronym
ASAP
— As Soon As Possible (pronounced AY-sap)
PS
— PostScript
CCTV
— Closed-circuit television
IT
— Information Technology
POC
— Point Of Contact
ALCON
— All Concerned
LIFO
— Last In, First Out
OBTW
— Oh By the Way
IYKWIM
— If You Know What I Mean
OBEX
— Object Exchange Protocol
CPU
— Central Processing Unit
POV
— Point Of View
FIFO
— First In, First Out
COA
— Course Of Action
BB
— Bulletin Board
OBTWIAVBP
— Obligatory the World Is A Very Big Place
NAVY
— Never Again Volunteer Yourself
VIP
— Very Important Person
IP
— Internet Protocol
AAA
— American Automobile Association
CR
— Carriage Return
ATTN
— Attention
CEO
— Chief Executive Officer
BMW
— Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Works)
AC
— Alternating Current
ACCT
— Account
TQM
— Total Quality Management
ITR
— Internet Talk Radio
CAPTCHA
— Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
BTU
— British Thermal Unit
ALU
— Arithmetic Logic Unit
EST
— Eastern Standard Time
AMD
— Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (producer of computer chips)
ADSL
— Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
API
— Application Programming Interface
R&D
— Research & Development
UFO
— Unidentified Flying Object
MTBF
— Mean Time Before Failure
NCO
— Non-Commissioned Officer
DOA
— dead on arrival
CMOS
— Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
ESRB
— Entertainment Software Rating Board
SME
— Subject Matter Expert
COD
— Cash On Delivery
DDOS
— Distributed Denial of Service
DJ
— Disc Jockey
BTR
— Better
PW
— Password
APB
— All Points Bulletin
ESA
— European Space Agency
PLMK
— Please Let Me Know. An example of an abbreviation designed with the aim of saving time for the writer, but which often turns out to be a false economy when the reader doesn't understand the request. (Ack B Butcher)
PVT
— Private
AMP
— Amplifier
FAQ
— Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak)
CD
— Compact Disc
AWOL
— Absent Without Leave
ACE
— Access Control Entry
NPV
— Net Present Value {economics}
OT
— Overtime
ARPA
— Advanced Research Projects Agency (made early internet)
EU
— European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
BTDT
— Been There, Done That
AMP
— Ampere
EOF
— End Of File
AM
— Ante Meridian
ACLU
— American Civil Liberties Union
FBI
— Federal Bureau of Investigation
EST
— Established
CRT
— Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
RFC
— Request For Comment
SFMJI
— Sorry For My Jumping In
TBD
— To Be Determined
DZ
— Drop Zone
BLK
— Black
ACU
— Army Combat Uniform
CTRL
— Control
NDA
— Non-Disclosure Agreement
ACK
— Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK)
AM
— Amplitude Modulation
EOL
— End Of Life
OJT
— On the Job Training
WRT
— "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics.
DWI
— Driving While Intoxicated
VM
— Voice Mail
JIT
— Just in time
PGP
— Pretty Good Privacy (encryption)
OTP
— One Time Password
SWAG
— Scientific Wild Ass Guess
SOW
— Statement Of Work
CIR
— Committed Information Rate (Frame Relay)
CPC
— Cost Per Click-through
DAU
— Dumb Ass User
ACME
— A Company that Makes Everything :-)
BIO
— Biological
CAD
— Computer Aided Designer
VC
— Venture Capital
MC
— Master of Ceremonies
OTOH
— On The Other Hand
AGC
— Automatic Gain Control
CTR
— Center
BIT
— Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1)
CRM
— Customer Relationship Management
AK
— Alaska
DARPA
— Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
DHCP
— Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DEPT
— Department
KIA
— Killed in Action
NG
— No Good
IOW
— In Other Words
WX
— Weather
WIP
— Work in Process
UAV
— Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
AD
— Air Defense
ISDN
— Integrated Services Digital Network
SQ
— Square
WILCO
— Will Comply
ATC
— Air traffic control
CDT
— Central Daylight Time
EQ
— Emotional Quotient
BAK
— Back At Keyboard
FFT
— Fast Fourier Transform
PNP
— Plug aNd Play
CDR
— Compact Disc Recordable
TBC
— To Be Confirmed
EOE
— Equal Opportunity Employer
DNS
— Domain Name Service
DSL
— Digital Subscriber Line
BBS
— Bulletin Board System
CST
— Central Standard Time (UTC-6 Hours)
CO
— Company
CMS
— Content Management System
BO
— Body Odor
DLL
— Dynamic Link Library (computer file)
CFL
— Canadian Football League
ONNA
— Oh No Not Again
FBW
— Fly By Wire
ELO
— Electric Light Orchestra
ATA
— Actual Time of Arrival
LUN
— Logical Unit Number
SNAFU
— Situation Normal All Fouled Up
WYSIWYG
— What You See Is What You Get (pronounced Wizzy-wig. See Entry For Derived Acronyms)
NRN
— No Reply Necessary
P2P
— Peer to Peer (as in music file sharing systems like KaZaA)
TM
— Trademark
DA
— District Attorney
AGP
— Accelerated Graphics Port
SOHO
— Small Office Home Office
UOM
— Unit Of Measure
APP
— Application
TOC
— Table of Contents
FDR
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
AC
— annual closing
CLI
— Command line Interface (Cabletron)
B2B
— Business to Businesse
CHK
— Check
UGC
— User Generated Content
CNN
— Cable News Network's
IP
— Intellectual Property
BO
— Back Off
OP
— Operator
NPI
— No Pun Intended
DOS
— Disk Operating System
PM
— post meridian
PDQ
— Pretty Damn Quick
KISS
— Keep It Simple Stupid
PPL
— Pay Per Lead
KBD
— Keyboard
BLOG
— Web Log
AT&T
— American Telephone & Telegraph
LA
— Los Angeles
SP
— Service Provider
EOT
— End Of Transmission
PHAT
— Pretty Hot And Tempting (warning To Others)
PSA
— Public Service Announcement (radio/TV Term)
OOAD
— Object Oriented Analysis and Design
SSID
— Service set identifier (Wi-Fi)
DAW
— Digital Audio Workstation
CIA
— Central Intelligence Agency
YACC
— Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
DCOM
— Distributed Component Object Model
BB
— Big Brother
COA
— Certificate Of Authenticity
MHS
— Message Handling System (electronic)
PSP
— PlayStation Portable
ISS
— International Space Station
AV
— Anti-Virus
BT
— British Telecommunications
WOW
— World of Warcraft
RMB
— Right Mouse Button
NPC
— Non-Player Character
MIMO
— Multiple Input, Multiple Output
NL
— New Line
THD
— Total Harmonic Distortion
UFN
— Until Further Notice
BER
— Beyond Economical Repair
CC
— Credit Card
BMT
— Basic Military Training
PC
— Player Character
XFER
— Transfer
DL
— Download
ESP
— Extra Sensory Perception
RTV
— Return To Vendor
TTL
— Time To Live
ISTR
— I Seem To Recall
EOL
— End Of Line
NMI
— No Middle Initial
ADN
— Advanced Digital Network
CC
— Crowd Control (gaming)
DVD
— Digital Versatile Disc
SYSOP
— System Operator
LKG
— Last Known Good
RTS
— Ready To Send
NA
— Not Available
NIMH
— Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni Is The Chemical Symbol For Nickel)
QOTD
— Quote of the Day
LTO
— Linear Tape-Open
DVR
— Digital Video Recorder
MIPS
— Millions of Instructions Per Second
PTB
— Powers That Be
SF
— Science Fiction
EA
— Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ Stock Exchange [NASDAQ])
ETC
— Et Cetera
CES
— Consumer Electronics Show
MOO
— MUD Object Oriented
EOC
— End Of Conversion
BYOD
— Bring Your Own Device
ATK
— Attack
SYT
— Sweet Young Thing
WAB
— Windows Address Book
ETD
— Estimated Time of Departure
DBR
— Damaged Beyond Repair
N/A
— Not Available
CDC
— Cult of the Dead Cow (hacker group)
LTR
— Letter
PVC
— Permanent Virtual Circuit (ATM)
MIN
— Minute
ACPT
— Accept
DM
— Dungeon Master
TCO
— Taken Care Of
JBOD
— Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives
BRS
— Big Red Switch
MODEM
— Modulator-Demodulator
UAE
— Unrecoverable Application Error
UCE
— Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail
AIM
— AOL Institutent Messenger
DUPE
— Duplicate
TTS
— Text To Speech
SLR
— Single Lens Reflex
MG
— Machine Gun
CO
— Commanding officer
N/A
— Not Acceptable
CYA
— Cover Your Associates
BET
— Black Entertainment Television
DST
— Daylight Saving Time
TIA
— Thanks in advance
DVI
— Digital Visual Interface
BT
— BitTorrent
NOP
— No Operation
OOTB
— Out Of The Box
EP
— Extended Play
ALT
— Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
BBC
— British Broadcasting Corporation
MGMT
— Management
BCP
— Best Current Practice
DOS
— Denial Of Service
SWAK
— Sealed With A Kiss
CMD
— Command
BOOTP
— Bootstrap Protocol
AIM
— Aol Instant Messege
DBCS
— Double-Byte Character Set
AV
— Audio/Video
BIOS
— Basic Input Output System
POTS
— Plain Old Telephone System
DMV
— Department of Motor Vehicles
DRM
— Digital Rights Management
POV
— Privately Owned Vehicle
PMFJI
— Pardon Me For Jumping In (same As Above)
LEP
— Light Emitting Polymer
LTR
— Letter ruling
TANSTAAFL
— There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (coined By Author Robert A. Heinlein In His The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress)
LBL
— Label
TMTOWTDI
— There's More Than One Way To Do It (from Perl)
2
— Too Add
RPG
— Role Playing Game
AA
— Automobile Association (UK)
NMN
— No Middle Name
MUSH
— Multi-User Shared Hallucination
EDD
— Estimated Delivery Date
SLP
— Super Long Play
MMORPG
— Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
NX
— No Execute (Microsoft)
ED
— Erase Display
MOTD
— Message of the Day
PMPO
— Peak Music Power Output
VBR
— Variable Bit Rate (ATM)
MS
— The Company Microsoft
TEL
— Telephone
NNTP
— Network News Transfer Protocol
ISWYM
— I See What You Mean
BWQ
— Buzz Word Quotient
LRU
— Least Recently Used
DOF
— degree of freedom
SWALK
— Sealed With A Loving Kiss
YT
— YouTube
UART
— Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter
CCNA
— Cisco Certified Network Associated
RTFI
— Read The Fucking Instructions
CIL
— critical items list
NAND
— Not And
MUD
— Multi-User Dungeon (gaming)
CUA
— Commonly Used Acronym
WORM
— Write-Once, Read-Many
AOM
— Age of Mythology
ACRONYM
— Abbreviation by CROping Names that Yield Meaning
WNOHGB
— Where No One Has Gone Before
DPI
— Dots per inch.
SPAM
— Send Phenomenal Amounts of Mail
DCF
— Department of Children and Families
MIA
— Missing In Action
AIW
— As It Was
DEA
— Drug Enforcement Administration (U.S. Department of Justice)
UBE
— Unsolicited Bulk Email
CPI
— characters per inch
SITD
— Still In The Dark
OOI
— Out of Interest
CSS
— Cascade Style Sheet
ONNTA
— Oh No, Not This Again
CTP
— Computer to plate
OOO
— Out Of Order
ETX
— End of Text
SW
— Software (SFTWE Preferred)
AGP
— Advanced Graphics Port
MFT
— Master File Table
RC
— Remote Control
BOF
— Birds of a Feather
DMCA
— Digital Millennium Copyright Act
D/L
— Download
CTF
— Capture The Flag
SFF
— Small-Form-Factor
MORF
— Male Or Female ?
RTT
— Round Trip Timer
BAD
— Broken as designed
BO
— Back Office
SEP
— Someone Else's Problem
SERP
— Search Engine Results Positioning
OTTH
— On the Third Hand
MRU
— Most Recently Used
WYSBYGI
— What You See Before You Get It
EAD
— Encoded Archival Description
LE
— Law Enforcement
WTC
— World Trade Center
EMS
— Emergency medical service
BBEG
— Big Bad Evil Guy
WT
— Without Thinking
SHTSI
— Somebody Had to Say It
M2M
— Machine to Machine, Mobile
SF
— San Francisco
LIU
— LAN Interface Unit
AP
— Associated Press
CG
— Computer Graphics
MBM
— Magnetic Bubble Memory
DWIM
— Do What I Mean
SFAIAA
— So Far As I Am Aware
TNPP
— Telocator Network Paging Protocol
ROFLMAO
— Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off
OTA
— Over The Air
TTFF
— Time To First Fix
CC
— Country Code
IRMFI
— I Reply Merely for Information
EMP
— Electro Magnetic Pulse
MOSPF
— Multicast Open Shortest Path First
NYCTMI
— Now You Come to Mention It
AIW
— As It Were
CE
— Common Era (substitute for AD)
ITSM
— IT Service Management
TBA
— To Be Announcede
SOTA
— State Of The Art
LWB
— Long wheel base
DMY
— Day Month Year
PPN
— Programmer Project Number
TEI
— Total Economic Impact
MUD
— Multi-User Dimension
JAM
— Just A Minute
TNG
— The Next Generation (Star Trek)
CS
— Counter-Strike (game)
XC
— Cross Connect
APC
— Armoured personnel carrier
RT
— Real Time (R/T Preferred)
IWFM
— It Works for Me
DAU
— Dümmster Anzunehmender User
WTTM
— Without Thinking Too Much
TWAIN
— Technology Without An Interesting Name
IRA
— Irish Republican Army see PIRA
ATK
— Attack Tool Kit
AFAIR
— As Far As I Recall
BING
— But It's Not Google
LFS
— Large File Support
BY
— Busy
PG
— Parental Guidance
LBL
— Labour Behind the Label
NTK
— Nice to Know
SEP
— Signalling End Point
BIO
— Biological Industry Organization
UDIAGS
— Und Das Ist Auch Gut So
TRATEOTU
— The Restaurant At the End of the Universe
SPKR
— Speaker
ISDN
— It Still Does Nothing
DLTM
— Digital Line Termination Module
SIMMS
— Single Inline Memory Modules
BI
— Breidbart Index
ATLA
— Another Three-Letter Acronym
ANC
— African National Congress
RL
— Rocket Launcher
ROTFLBTC
— Rolling On The Floor Laughing and Biting The Carpet
AMD
— An Air Movement Device
BC
— Before Christmas
Q
— Queue
DEMMS
— DEMM'S is an acronym for Daniel Ellis, Melissa Meddaugh's
CC
— Courtesy Copy (email; for those who never used carbon paper)
LBL
— Large Box Label
SMOP
— Small Matter of Programming
CDMA
— Code Divisionsion Multiple Access
SDK
— Software Developer's Kit
BIO
— Biological Informatics Office
CBC
— Canadian Broadcasting Corporationration
WINDOWS
— Will Install Needless Data On Whole System. Classic ironic 'backronym'. Perhaps a little unfair, but need we say more?...
RTFF
— Read The Fine Faq
LC
— Landing Craft
U/L
— Upload
TERAC
— Trained Educated Responsible Armed Citizen
UTSL
— Use The Source, Luke
TRT
— The Right Thing
CHK
— Checkpoint kinase
NTK
— Need-To-Know
TXT
— Text File (filename extension)
AFOT
— Ass Fucked on Tinder
ROFLASTC
— Rolling On the Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat
LTR
— Letters to Rob
ROFLGO
— Rolling On the Floor Laughing Guts Out
LTUAE
— Life, the Universe and Everything
TOT
— Totally Off-Topic
VLAN-XC
— VLAN Cross Connect
SPAM
— Spiced Pork and hAM
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