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