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