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 65LAN Local Area Network 66LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 67LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License 68LOL Laughing out loud 69MathML Mathematical Markup Language 70MB Megabyte 71MHz Megahertz 72MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension 73MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 74MML Mathematical Markup Language 75MP3 Moving Picture Experts Group Layer 3 76MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group 77MSDN Microsoft Developer Network 78MS Microsoft 79MSIE Microsoft Internet Explorer 80NIS Network Information Service 81NS4.7 Netscape 4.7 82NS4 Netscape 4 83NS6 Netscape 6 84NS7 Netscape 7 85OMG Oh my God 86OPML Outline Processor Markup Language 87OS Operating System 88OSS Open Source Software 89OTOH On the other hand 90P2P Peer to Peer 91PDA Personal Digital Assistant 92PDF Portable Document Format 93Perl Practical Extraction and Report Language 94PERL Practical Extraction and Report Language 95PHP Hypertext Preprocessor 96PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection 97PIN Personal Identification Number 98PITA Pain in the Ass 99PNG Portable Network Graphics 100POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 101POP Post Office Protocol 102QoS Quality of Service 103RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks 104RDF Resource Description Framework 105RFC Request for Comments 106ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing 107RPC Remote Procedure Call 108RSS Rich Site Summary 109RTFM Read The Fine Manual 110RTF Rich Text File 111SCSI Small Computer System Interface 112SDK Software Development Kit 113SGML Standard General Markup Language 114SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 115SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 116SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol 117spec specification 118SQL Structured Query Language 119SSH Secure Shell 120SSI Server Side Includes 121SSL Secure Sockets Layer 122SVG Scalable Vector Graphics 123TIA Thanks in advance 124TIFF Tagged Image File Format 125TLD Top Level Domain 126TOC Table of Contents 127URI Uniform Resource Identifier 128URL Uniform Resource Locator 129URN Uniform Resource Name 130VBA Visual Basic for Applications 131VB Visual Basic 132W3C World Wide Web Consortium 133WAN Wide Area Network 134WAP Wireless Access Protocol 135WML Wireless Markup Language 136WTF? What the f*** 137WWW World Wide Web 138WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get 139XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language 140XML Extensible Markup Language 141XSD XML (Extensible Markup Language) Schema Definition 142XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language 143XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations 144XUL XML User Interface Language 145YMMV Your mileage may vary 146