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