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Magical Acronyms

Acronym Description URL Identified URL
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force http://www.ietf.org/
RFC IETF Request For Comment $1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc$1.txt

Mobius Acronyms

Acronym Description
BML Bytecode Modeling Language
BON Business Object Notation
CDE Collaborative Development Environment
EBON Extended BON
ESC Extended Static Checking
ETHZ Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich
IDE Integrated Development Environment
INRIA Instituit National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
JACK Java Applet Correctness Kit
JML Java Modeling Language
Mobius Mobility, Ubiquity, Security
MPVE Mobius PVE
NCSS Non Commenting Source Statements
PCC Proof Carrying Code
PVE Program Verification Environment
PVS
RAC Runtime Assertion Checking
RCC Race Conditon Checking
RU Radboud University
SMT Satisfiability Modulo Theories
SMT-LIB SMT Library
UCD University College Dublin
VC Verification Condition
WU Warsaw University

Technical Acronyms

Acronym Description
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
AIFF Audio Interchange File Format
AIX Advanced Interactive Executive
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AMS Application Management Software
API Application Programing Interface
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP Active Server Page or Application Service Provider
AST Abstract Syntax Tree
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCEL Byte Code Engineering Library
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BMP Bitmap
BTS Bug Tracking System
CAD Computer-Aided Design
CCD Charged Coupled Device
CDE Collaborative Development Environment
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
CDRW Compact Disc Re-Writable
CDR Compact Disc Recordable
CD Compact Disc
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing
CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMYK Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
CPA Cost Per Action
CPC Cost Per Click
CPL Cost Per Lead
CPM Cost Per 1,000 Impressions
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CRUD Create, Read, Update, and Delete
CSS Cascading Style Sheet
CTP Composite Theoretical Performance
CTR Click-Through Rate
DEC-SRC Digital Equipment Corporation - Systems Research Center
DBMS Database Management System
DDR2 Double Data Rate 2
DDR Double Data Rate
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIMM Dual In-Line Memory Module
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DMA Direct Memory Access
DNS Domain Name System
DRM Digital Rights Management
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DTD Document Type Definition
DVDRAM Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory
DVDRW Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
DVDRW Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
DVDR Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
DVDR Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
DVD Digital Versatile Disc
DVI Digital Video Interface
DVR Digital Video Recorder
DV Digital Video
EPS Encapsulated PostScript
EUP Enterprise Unified Process
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FPU Floating Point Unit
FSB Frontside Bus
FSM Finite State Machine
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FiOS Fiber Optic Service
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIS Geographic Information Systems
GPS Global Positioning System
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GUI Graphical User Interface
HDTV High Definition Televsion
HDV High-Definition Video
HFS Hierarchical File System
HTML Hyper-Text Markup Language
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
ICF Internet Connection Firewall
ICS Internet Connection Sharing
IrDa Infrared Data Association
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
IM Instant Message
IO Input/Output
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange
IP Internet Protocol
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRQ Interrupt Request
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISP Internet Service Provider
IT Information Technology
IVR Interactive Voice Response
InterNIC Internet Network Information Center
JDK Java SDK
JLS Java Language Specification
JRE Java Runtime Environment
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JSP Java Server Page
JTWI Java Technology for the Wireless Industry
J2ME Java 2 Micro Edition
Kbps Kilobits Per Second
LAN Local Area Network
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LPI Lines Per Inch
MAC Address Media Access Control Address
MCA Micro Channel Architecture
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIDP Mobile Information Device Protocol
MIPS Million Instructions Per Second
MP3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
Mbps Megabits Per Second
NAT Network Address Translation
NIC Network Interface Card
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol
NOC Network Operations Center
NTFS New Technology File System
NSF National Science Foundation
NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System
OCR Optical Character Recognition
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OLAP Online Analytical Processing
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
P2P Peer To Peer
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDF Portable Document Format
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PIM Personal Information Management
PNG Portable Network Graphic
POD Plain Old Document (Perl)
POP3 Post Office Protocol
PPC Pay Per Click
PPGA Plastic Pin Grid Array
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PRAM Parameter Random Access Memory
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
RDF Resource Description Framework
RDRAM Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
REST Representational State Transfer
RGB Red Green Blue
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
ROM Read-Only Memory
RMS Record Management Service
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RSS RDF Site Summary
RTF Rich Text Fomat
RUP Rational Unified Process
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SD Secure Digital
SDK Software Development Kit
SEO Search Engine Optimization
SFI Science Foundation Ireland
SIMM Single In-Line Memory Module
SMART Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology
SMS Short Message Service
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL Structured Query Language
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
TCPIP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TFT Thin-Film Transistor
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TTL Time To Live
TWAIN Toolkit Without An Informative Name
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UML Unified Modeling Language
UNC Universal Naming Convention
URI Universal Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier
VCS Version Control System
VFAT Virtual File Allocation Table
VGA Video Graphics Array
VLB VESA Local Bus
VPI Virtual Path Identifier
VPN Virtual Private Network
VRAM Video Random Access Memory
VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VoIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
WAIS Wide Area Information Server
WAN Wide Area Network
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WWW World Wide Web
WiFi Wireless Fidelity
XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML Extensible Markup Language
XML-RPC XML Remote Procedure Call
Y2K Year 2000
ZIF Zero Insertion Force
sRGB Standard Red Green Blue

Colourful Acronyms

Acronym Description
AAMOF As a matter of fact...
AFAICR As far as I can remember...
AFAIK As far as I know...
AFK Away from keyboard.
AKA Also known as...
AOL America On Line
BAK Back at keyboard.
BBFN Bye bye for now
BBIAB Be back in a bit.
BBIAFM Be back in a few minutes.
BBIAF Be back in a few.
BBIAM Be back in a minute.
BBL Be back later.
BBS Be back soon.
BFN Bye for now
BRB Be right back.
BTW By the way...
BYKT But you knew that
CMIIW Correct me if I'm wrong
CUL8R See you later.
CUL See you later.
CU See you.
DIIK Damned if I know!
EOL End of line/lecture
ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym
FITB Fill in the blank
FOAD F**k off and die!
FOAF Friend of a friend.
FOTCL Falling out the chair laughing!
FTF Face-to-face.
FUBAR F**ked up beyond all recognition
FWIW For what it's worth...
FYA For your amusement...
FYI For your information...
GFY Go f**k yourself!
GMTA Great minds think alike!
GTG Got to go.
HHOJ Ha-ha, only joking!
HHOK Ha-ha, only kidding!
HTH Hope this helps
IAC In any case...
IAE In any event...
ICL In Christian love
IMAO In my arrogant opinion...
IMCO In my considered opinion
IMHO In my humble opinion...
IMNSHO In my not-so-humble opinion...
IMO In my opinion...
IOW In other words...
IRL In real life.
L8R Later
LMAO Laughing my arse off!
LOL Laughing out loud!
LTNS Long time no see!
LTNT Long time no type!
MGB May God bless
MHOTY My hat's off to you
MOTAS Member of the appropriate sex.
MOTD Message of the day.
MOTOS Member of the opposite sex.
MOTSS Member of the same sex.
NBD No big deal!
NM Nevermind.
NP No problem.
NRN No response necessary.
NTMK Not to My Knowledge
OIC Oh, I see.
OTB Oh, to bed.
OTOH On the other hand...
OTW On the way.
PITA Pain in the arse.
PMJ Pardon my jumping in.
POV Point of view.
RL Real life.
ROFLMAO Rolling on the floor laughing my arse off!
ROFL Rolling on the floor laughing!
ROF Rolling on the floor
ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing
RSN Real soon now.
RTFM Read the f**king manual!
RTM Read the manual!
SIFOTCN Sitting in front of the computer naked.
SITD Still in the dark.
TANSTAAFL There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!
TIA Thanks in advance.
TIC Tongue in cheek.
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TTFN Ta-ta for now!
TTYL Talk to you later!
TYVM Thank you very much
WB Welcome back!
WTF What the f**k?
WTG Way to go!
WTH What the hell?
WYSIWYG what you see is what you get
YMMV Your mileage may vary

Examples

RFC1630, RFC, IETF, ROFL WTG

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