1# Acronyms. 2 3ACL Access Control List 4AFAICS As far as I can see 5AFAIK As far as I know 6AFAIR As far as I remember 7AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML 8AIM AOL (America Online) Instant Messenger 9AOL America Online 10API Application Programming Interface 11ASAP As soon as possible 12ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange 13ASP Active Server Pages 14BTW By the way 15CGI Common Gateway Interface 16CMS Content Management System 17CSS Cascading Style Sheets 18CVS Concurrent Versions System 19DBA Database Administrator 20DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol 21DHTML Dynamic HyperText Markup Language 22DMCA Digital Millenium Copyright Act 23DNS Domain Name System 24DOM Document Object Model 25DTD Document Type Definition 26EOF End of file 27EOL End of line 28EOM End of message 29EOT End of text 30ESMTP Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 31FAQ Frequently Asked Questions 32FDL GNU Free Documentation License 33FTP File Transfer Protocol 34FOSS Free & Open-Source Software 35FLOSS Free/Libre and Open Source Software 36FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt 37GB Gigabyte 38GHz Gigahertz 39GIF Graphics Interchange Format 40GPL GNU General Public License 41GUI Graphical User Interface 42HTML HyperText Markup Language 43HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol 44IANAL I am not a lawyer (but) 45ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 46ICQ I seek you (Instant Messenger) 47IE5 Internet Explorer 5 48IE6 Internet Explorer 6 49IE Internet Explorer 50IIRC If I remember correctly 51IIS Internet Information Services 52IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol 53IMHO In my humble opinion 54IMO In my opinion 55IOW In other words 56IRC Internet Relay Chat 57IRL In real life 58ISO International Organization for Standardization 59ISP Internet Service Provider 60JDK Java Development Kit 61JPEG Joint Photographics Experts Group 62JPG Joint Photographics Experts Group 63JS JavaScript 64KISS Keep it simple stupid 65LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 66LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License 67LOL Laughing out loud 68MathML Mathematical Markup Language 69MB Megabyte 70MHz Megahertz 71MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension 72MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 73MML Mathematical Markup Language 74MP3 Moving Picture Experts Group Layer 3 75MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group 76MSDN Microsoft Developer Network 77MS Microsoft 78MSIE Microsoft Internet Explorer 79NIS Network Information Service 80NS4.7 Netscape 4.7 81NS4 Netscape 4 82NS6 Netscape 6 83NS7 Netscape 7 84OMG Oh my God 85OPML Outline Processor Markup Language 86OS Operating System 87OSS Open Source Software 88OTOH On the other hand 89P2P Peer to Peer 90PDA Personal Digital Assistant 91PDF Portable Document Format 92Perl Practical Extraction and Report Language 93PERL Practical Extraction and Report Language 94PHP Hypertext Preprocessor 95PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection 96PIN Personal Identification Number 97PITA Pain in the Ass 98PNG Portable Network Graphics 99POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 100POP Post Office Protocol 101QoS Quality of Service 102RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks 103RDF Resource Description Framework 104RFC Request for Comments 105ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing 106RPC Remote Procedure Call 107RSS Rich Site Summary 108RTFM Read The Fine Manual 109RTF Rich Text File 110SCSI Small Computer System Interface 111SDK Software Development Kit 112SGML Standard General Markup Language 113SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 114SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 115SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol 116spec specification 117SQL Structured Query Language 118SSH Secure Shell 119SSI Server Side Includes 120SSL Secure Sockets Layer 121SVG Scalable Vector Graphics 122TIA Thanks in advance 123TIFF Tagged Image File Format 124TLD Top Level Domain 125TOC Table of Contents 126URI Uniform Resource Identifier 127URL Uniform Resource Locator 128URN Uniform Resource Name 129VBA Visual Basic for Applications 130VB Visual Basic 131W3C World Wide Web Consortium 132WAN Wide Area Network 133WAP Wireless Access Protocol 134WML Wireless Markup Language 135WTF? What the f*** 136WWW World Wide Web 137WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get 138XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language 139XML Extensible Markup Language 140XSD XML (Extensible Markup Language) Schema Definition 141XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language 142XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations 143XUL XML User Interface Language 144YMMV Your mileage may vary 145