Acronyms List

[sail3005]

Hey, my friend and I, (Wynd in this forum) were bored today in school, so we started making this list of all of the computer related acronyms that we could think of, and define them. I was thinking it would be cool if anyone could help us add to the list and help us get it as big as we can! (i know there are websites that tell you all of these, but it is more fun on your own)

P.S. i know some of these are wrong, and some aren't even defined. Maybe you could help us out too. Just for fun...



ASP - Active Server Pages
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor (?)
JSP - Java Server Pages
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
CFM - Cold Fusion ??? (?)
VBS - VB Script
XML - eXtended Markup Language
XSL - ??? (?)
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
DOM - Document Object Model
DTD - Document Type Definition
MML - Math Markup Language
C - C
CPP - C++
COBOL - Common Business-Oriented Language
REXX - (?)
FORTRAN - Formula Translation
BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Interpreted Code
QBASIC - Quick Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Interpreted Code
ASCII - American Standard ??? ??? ??? (?)
JDK - Java Development Kit
SQL - Standard Query Language
SP - Service Pack
NT - Network Terminal (?)
DOS - Disk Operating System
OS/2 - Operating System\2 (?)
MS - Microsoft
PKDOS - PKUnzip for Dos (?)
UBB - Ultimate BB
HQX - Executable for the Mac (?)
TAR - Compressed file for Linux(?)
GZ - Compressed file for Linux(?)
RAR - Rapid ??? ??? (?)
ACE - (?)
ZIP - WinZip File (?)
GNU - (?)
IIS - Internet Information Services
PWS - Personal Web Server
AMD - American Micro Devices (?)
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
IP - (?)
COM - (?)
API - ??? Programming Interface
MFC - Microsoft Foundation Classes
SDK - Software Development Kit
IDE - Integrated Developer Environment
SCSI - (?)
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format (?)
ROM - Read-only Memory
RAM - Random Access Memory
USB - Universal Serial Bus
CPU - Central Processing Unit
AIM - AOL Instant Messenger
AOL - America Online
ICQ - I Seek You
MSN - Microsoft Network
ASM - Assembler
MSIE - Microsoft Internet Explorer
NS - Netscape
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
IQR - Interrupt Request
FAT - File Allocation Table
I/O - Input/Output
CMOS - (?)
CD - Compact Disc
POP - Post Office Protocol (?)
SMTP - (?)
NNTP - (?)
PS/2 - (?)
LPT - (?)
COM - (?)
EIDE - (?)
SDRAM - (?)
RDRAM - (?)
LOL - Laughs Out Loud
ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
PPL - People

[Active]

CFM -Cold Fusion Markup
XSL - Extensible Style Language
ASCII - American Standard Code For Information Interchange
NT (as in WindowsNT) - New Technology
QBASIC - Quick Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
IP - Internet protocol
COM - commerce or Communication(port)
API - Application Programming Interface
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
CMOS-Complementary Metal oxide semiconductor
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol
PS/2 - Personal Station
EIDE - Enhanced Integararted Device Electronics
SDRAM - Synchronus Dynamic Random access Memory
RDRAM - Rambus Dynamic RAM

[crptcblade]

Everthing you need (http://www.glossary-tech.com/)

[Michael]

TLA - Three Letter Acronym

[Gaffer]

WDYTOTTADSLBI

For those brits that grew up in the early 70s (influential program)

Perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

PHP started out as Personal Home Pages, because thats what Rasmus Lerdorf used it for. but it soon evolved into a HTML preprocessor, so, if I remember correctly, this is what the acronym means.

PHP - PHP(Personal Home Pages) Hypertext Preprocessor

XML - Extensible Markup Language

[Mark Sreeves]

here's another page to peruse

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

(yet) another thing that annoys me is people who use the word acronymwhen they mean abbreviation

Acronym is an abbreviation which makes an pronounceable word

Eg PERL,ASCII,DOS are Acronyms

Whereas
NT, HTTP etc are just abbreviations




PS,

GNU (mentioned above) is a recursive acronym
It means Gnu Not Unix

[sail3005]

woah, and i thought my list was big! How did those websites get all of those! Maybe i can think of some more in school today...

i think the worst has gotta be PMS :D *simon starts running away*

[Active]

YES ! HB

I meant
www.dhd.com <--

and the Port that your Modem Speaks to
COM port


But I forgot the COM - Component Object Model

It doesn't Mean that I didn't Know COM also
Stands For Component Object Model..

What is ABC ?

Can You tell Me all the Expansions ?

[parksie]

PMS -- Pre-marital stress :p (not really...but it's as obvious as the other!)
SHTML -- Server-parsed HTML
CISC -- Complex Instruction Set Computer
RISC -- Reduced Instruction Set Computer
VLSI -- Very Large Scale Integration

[marnitzg]

PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industry acronyms. :)

[parksie]

Most
Applications
Crash
If
Not
Then
Operating
System
Hangs

ACRONYM - A Clever Re-Organisation Nudges Your Memory
ACRONYM - A Completely Random Order Never Yields Meaning
ACRONYM - A Concise Recollection of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
ACRONYM - A Concise Reduction Obliquely Naming Your Meaning
ACRONYM - A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
ACRONYM - A Crazy Reminder Of Names You Misplaced
ACRONYM - A Cross Reference Of Notes Yielding Messages
ACRONYM - A Cryptic Reminder Of Names You Meet
ACRONYM - Abbreviated Code Rarely Or Never Yielding Meaning
ACRONYM - Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning
ACRONYM - Abbreviation By Cropping Names That Yield Meaning
ACRONYM - Alphabetic Collocation Reducing Or Numbing Your Memory
ACRONYM - Alphabetically Coded Reminder of Names You Misremember
ACRONYM - Alphabetically Condensed Representation of Neologically Yclept Magniloquence
ACRONYM - Alphanumeric Code for Remembering Odd Names You Make up

[parksie]

PERL -- Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister

[Active]

ABC --

Associated British Cinemas
American Broadcasting Company
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Audit Bureau of Circulations

[Mark Sreeves]

Gaffer

I remember WDYTOTTADSLBI.

I only saw it once though because I didn't have a telly!

[zmerlinz]

I am supprised that you missed this one guys, it is for all of your Winnie the pooh fans

TTFN

Ta Ta For Now

:o)

[Gaffer]

Mark, thank god SOMEONE remembers "Why Don't You" !!!

You didn't have a telly? Well, you were lucky, I had no shoes. And I had to work down pit for living....

[HarryW]

We'd work 27 hours a day down 't mill, and when we got home our father'd slice us i' two wit' breadknife.

You try tellin' kids that nowadays. They won't believe ya.

[HarryW]

By the way (or BTW given the circumstances), I remember a programme called "Why Don't You", and I remember endless serieses of it being shown on TV with a different set of supposedly talented young presenters every time, but I have no idea what the TOTTADSLBI bit means.

[Gaffer]

As far as I can rememeber, it was Why Don't You Switch of The Television And Do Something Less Boring Instead.

Which was (and is ) the most perfect example of of anti-advertising ever.

BTW, anyone remember the Swap Shop telephone number? Trip to Grimbsy for the winner....

[Gaffer]

I feel a new thread coming on....


oeeerrrrr....

[marnitzg]

Well, back to acronyms:

Windows - Will install needless data on whole system
Microsoft - Most intelligent customers realise our software only fools teenagers
Basic - Bills attempt to seize industry control

[Al Smith]

Hi,

WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get.)

Al.

ANOOP : A Neat Object-Oriented Programmer

LINUX : LINux Is Not unIX

[sail3005]

Sorry to all VB lovers out there...

.VBS

Virtually Bull Sh**!

[Hotrootsoup]

Sorry to all VB lovers out there...

.VBS

Virtually Bull Sh**!



Umm this is a vb site...