Computer Technical Acronyms

ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
ARQ: Automatic Repeat Request
BBS: Bulletin Board Software
BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution
CGI: Comman Gateway Interface
DES: Data Encryption Standard
DNS: Domain Name Service
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
FAQ: Frequently asked questions
FTP: File Transfer Protocol (now often seen in lower case as ftp)
GMT: Greenwich Mean Time
GNU: GNU is Not Unix (recursive)
GUI: Graphical Users Interface
HTML: HyperText Markup Language
HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol
IRC: Internet Relay Chat
ISP: Internet Service Provider
IO: Input Output As in file IO.
LAN: Local Area Network
NTP: Network Time Protocol
NNTP: Network News Transfer Protocol
MDA: Mail Delivery Agent
MIME: Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions
MOSFET: Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MUD: Multiple User Dungeon an interactive multiuser game.
OSF: Open Software Foundation
PERL: Pratical Extraction & Reporting Language or Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol
PINE: Pine Is Not Elm
RARP: Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RFC: Request For Comments
RTF: Rich Text Format
TCP/IP: Transmissions Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TIA: The Internet Adaptor
TTY: Tele-TYpe
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language
SWISH: Simple Web Indexing System for Humans
WAN: Wide Area Networks
WAIS: Wide Area Information Server
WWW or 3W: World Wide Web
URL: Uniform Resource Locator

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