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List of acronyms/initialisms (add your own, in alphabetical order)
  • AA - Alcoholics Anoynmous / Automobile Association / Anti-Aliasing
  • AAA - American Automobile Association
  • AABB - Axis aligned bounding box
  • AAC - Advanced Audio Coding (audio compression format defined by the MPEG-2 standard)
  • ACL - Access Control List
  • ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
  • ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
  • AD - Latin "Anno Domini" (In the year of our Lord)
  • ADC - Apple Display Connector (DVI variant)
  • ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, variant of DSL
  • ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC-3 hours)
  • AFAIK - As far as I know
  • AFAIR - As far as I remember
  • AFJ - April Fool's Joke
  • AFK - Away from keyboard
  • AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port, sometimes used with a suffix indicating the port's bandwidth, like APG4x
  • AI - Amnesty International; Artificial Intelligence
  • AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
  • AIM - AOL Instant Messenger
  • aka - also known as
  • AKDT - Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC-8 hours)
  • AKST - Alaska Standard Time (UTC-9 hours)
  • AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
  • AMR - Audio Modem Riser
  • ANSI - American National Standards Institute
  • AOL - America Online
  • AP - Associated Press
  • API - Application Programming Interface
  • apm - Advanced Power Management
  • ASAP - as soon as possible
  • ASCAP
  • ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  • ASL - American Sign Language
  • ASP - Application service provider
  • ASP - Active Server Pages
  • AST - Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4 hours)
  • AT&T - American Telephone and Telegraph Company
  • AVI - Audio Video Interleaved
  • AWACS - Airborne Warning and Control System

  • B2B - Business to Business
  • B2C - Business to Customer
  • BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic
  • BB - Brigitte Bardot (actress) / Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organisation)
  • BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
  • BBQ - Barbeque
  • BBS - Bulletin Board System
  • BCC - Blind Carbon Copy
  • BFE - Beyond/Butt F****** Egypt (colloquial for "quite far away")
  • BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain
  • BIOS - Basic Input Output System
  • BMX - Bicycle Motor Cross
  • BO2K - Back Orifice 2000
  • BOFH - Bastard operator from hell
  • bpm - Beats per minute
  • BSA - Business Software Alliance
  • BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution (Unix variant)
  • BSE - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, better known as Mad Cow disease
  • BSOD - Blue Screen of Death (MS Windows specific)
  • BST - British Summer Time (UTC 1 hour)
  • BT - British Telecommunications plc
  • BP - British Petroleum
  • BTO - Built to Order
  • BTW - By the way
  • BYOB - Bring your own beverages/bottle

  • CAD - Computer Aided Design
  • CD - Compact Disc
  • CD-R - CD-Recordable
  • CD-RW - CD-Rewritable
  • CE - Common (or Christian) Era (cf. AD)
  • cf - Latin "confer" (compare, or see also)
  • CLEC - Competitive (?) Local Exchange Carrier
  • CO - Central Office (Phone Company office or POP)
  • CRM - Customer Relations Management
  • CSS - Cascading Style sheets

  • DND - Do Not Disturb
  • DVD - Digital Versatile Disk (was Digital Video Disk)

  • ETLA - Extended TLA
  • EU - European Union

  • FIFO - First In First Out
  • FUBAR - F****d Up Beyond All Repair/Recognition
  • FWIW - For What It's Worth

  • GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
  • GNU - GNU's Not Unix
  • GT - Gran Turismo

  • HMS - Her (or His) Majesty's Ship (see Royal Navy)
  • HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
  • HTTP - Hypertext Transport Protocol

  • IANAL - I am not a lawyer
  • IIRC - If I recall correctly
  • IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
  • IMO - In My Opinion
  • IPN - Polish Institute for National Memory (Instytut pamieci narodowej)
  • IRA - Irish Republican Army

  • JATO - Jet Assisted Takeoff Unit

  • KKK - Ku Klux Klan

  • LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
  • LATA - Local Access Transport Area
  • LEC - Local Exchange Carrier
  • LIFO - Last In First Out
  • LOL - Laughing Out Loud

  • MASER - Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
  • MHz - Megahertz
  • MOPE - Most Oppressed People Ever (politics)

  • NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • NATO - North-Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard
  • NGO - Non-Governmental Organization
  • NLP - Natural Language Processing or Neuro Linguistic Programming

  • PABX - Private Automated Branch Exchange (company phone system)
  • PBX - Private Branch Exchange (company phone system)
  • plc - (British) public limited company
  • POP - Point of Presence
  • POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service

  • Quango - (British) quasi non-governmental organisation
  • Quasar - quasi-stellar radio source
  • qv - Latin "quod vide" (which see)

  • radar - radio detection and ranging
  • RBOC - Regional Bell Operating Company ("Baby Bell")
  • RPN - Reverse Polish Notation

  • SCUBA - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
  • SMDR - Station Message Detail Recording
  • SNAFU - Situation Normal All F****d Up
  • SOL - S**t Out of Luck

  • TLA - Three-Letter Acronym

  • UFO - Unidentified Flying Object
  • UN - United Nations
  • UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund, originally United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

  • VTOL - Vertical Takeoff & Landing

  • WTO - World Trade Organization
  • WWW - World Wide Wait (sometimes World Wide Web)

  • YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary


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