Computer and Internet acronyms

Acronym Meaning

ACL Access Control List

ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter

ADF Automatic Document Feeder

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AGP Accelerated Graphics Port

AIFF Audio Interchange File Format

AIX Advanced Interactive Executive

ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit

ANSI American National Standards Institute

API Application Program Interface

APU Accelerated Processing Unit

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASP Active Server Page or Application Service Provider

ATA Advanced Technology Attachment

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATX Advanced Technology eXtended

AUP Acceptable Use Policy

Bash Bourne-Again Shell

BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

Bcc Blind Carbon Copy

BIOS Basic Input/Output System

Blob Binary Large Object

BMP Bitmap

BSOD Blue Screen of Death

CAD Computer-Aided Design

Cc Carbon Copy

CCD Charged Coupled Device

CD Compact Disc

CD-R Compact Disc Recordable

CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory

CD-RW Compact Disc Re-Writable

CDFS Compact Disc File System

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CDN Content Delivery Network

CGI Common Gateway Interface

CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing

CLOB Character Large Object

CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMS Content Management System

CMYK Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

CPA Cost Per Action

CPC Cost Per Click

CPL Cost Per Lead

CPM Cost Per 1,000 Impressions

CPS Classroom Performance System

CPU Central Processing Unit

CRM Customer Relationship Management

CRT Cathode Ray Tube

CSS Cascading Style Sheet

CTP Composite Theoretical Performance

CTR Click-Through Rate

DAC Digital-to-Analog Converter

DAW Digital Audio Workstation

DBMS Database Management System

DCIM Digital Camera IMages

DDL Data Definition Language

DDR Double Data Rate

DDR2 Double Data Rate 2

DDR3 Double Data Rate Type 3

DFS Distributed File System

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIMM Dual In-Line Memory Module

DLC Downloadable Content

DLL Dynamic Link Library

DMA Direct Memory Access

DNS Domain Name System

DOS Disk Operating System

DPI Dots Per Inch

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory

DRM Digital Rights Management

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

DTD Document Type Definition

DV Digital Video

DVD Digital Versatile Disc

DVD+R Digital Versatile Disc Recordable

DVD+RW Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable

DVD-R Digital Versatile Disc Recordable

DVD-RAM Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory

DVD-RW Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable

DVI Digital Video Interface

DVR Digital Video Recorder

ECC Error Correction Code

EDI Electronic Data Interchange

EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

EPS Encapsulated PostScript

EUP Enterprise Unified Process

EXIF Exchangeable Image File Format

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FIFO First In, First Out

FILO First In, Last Out

FiOS Fiber Optic Service

FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second

FPU Floating Point Unit

FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name

FSB Frontside Bus

FTP File Transfer Protocol

Gbps Gigabits Per Second

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out

GIS Geographic Information Systems

GPIO General Purpose Input/Output

GPS Global Positioning System

GPU Graphics Processing Unit

GUI Graphical User Interface

GUID Globally Unique Identifier

HDD Hard Disk Drive

HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface

HDTV High Definition Televsion

HDV High-Definition Video

HFS Hierarchical File System

HSF Heat Sink and Fan

HTML Hyper-Text Markup Language

HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPS HyperText Transport Protocol Secure

I/O Input/Output

ICANN Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers

ICF Internet Connection Firewall

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

ICS Internet Connection Sharing

ICT Information and Communication Technologies

IDE Integrated Device Electronics or Integrated Development Environment

IDS Intrusion Detection System

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IGP Integrated Graphics Processor

IIS Internet Information Services

IM Instant Message

IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol

InterNIC Internet Network Information Center

IP Internet Protocol

IPS Intrusion Prevention System

IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange

IRC Internet Relay Chat

IRQ Interrupt Request

ISA Industry Standard Architecture

iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ISP Internet Service Provider

IT Information Technology

IVR Interactive Voice Response

JFS Journaled File System

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

JRE Java Runtime Environment

JSF JavaServer Faces

JSON JavaScript Object Notation

JSP Java Server Page

Kbps Kilobits Per Second

KDE K Desktop Environment

KVM Switch Keyboard, Video, and Mouse Switch

LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP

LAN Local Area Network

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LED Light-Emitting Diode

LIFO Last In, First Out

LPI Lines Per Inch

LTE Long Term Evolution

LUN Logical Unit Number

MAC Address Media Access Control Address

MAMP Mac OS X, Apache, MySQL, and PHP

MANET Mobile Ad Hoc Network

Mbps Megabits Per Second

MBR Master Boot Record

MCA Micro Channel Architecture

MDI Medium Dependent Interface

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIPS Million Instructions Per Second

MIS Management Information System

MMS Multimedia Messaging Service

MP3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3

MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group

MTU Maximum Transmission Unit

NAT Network Address Translation

NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System

NIC Network Interface Card

NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol

NOC Network Operations Center

NSP Network Service Provider

NTFS New Technology File System

NUI Natural User Interface

NVRAMNon-Volatile Random Access Memory

OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

OCR Optical Character Recognition

ODBC Open Database Connectivity

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer

OLAP Online Analytical Processing

OLE Object Linking and Embedding

OLED Organic Light Emitting Diode

OOP Object-Oriented Programming

OSD On Screen Display

OSPF Open Shortest Path First

P2P Peer To Peer

PC Personal Computer

PCB Printed Circuit Board

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCI-X Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended

PCMCIAPersonal Computer Memory Card International Association

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDF Portable Document Format

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

PIM Personal Information Manager

PMU Power Management Unit

PNG Portable Network Graphic

PON Passive Optical Network

POP3 Post Office Protocol

POST Power On Self Test

PPC Pay Per Click

PPGA Plastic Pin Grid Array

PPI Pixels Per Inch

PPL Pay Per Lead

PPM Pages Per Minute

PPP Point to Point Protocol

PPPoE Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet

PPS Pay Per Sale

PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

PRAM Parameter Random Access Memory

PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory

PS/2 Personal System/2

PUM Potentially Unwanted Modification

PUP Potentially Unwanted Program

QBE Query By Example

RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM Random Access Memory

RDF Resource Description Framework

RDRAM Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory

RFID Radio-Frequency Identification

RGB Red Green Blue

RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing

ROM Read-Only Memory

RPC Remote Procedure Call

RPM Revenue Per 1,000 Impressions

RSS RDF Site Summary

RTE Runtime Environment

RTF Rich Text Format

RUP Rational Unified Process

SaaS Software as a Service

SAN Storage Area Network

SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

SCSI Small Computer System Interface

SD Secure Digital

SDK Software Development Kit

SDLC System Development Lifecycle

SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line

SEO Search Engine Optimization

SERP Search Engine Results Page

SIMM Single In-Line Memory Module

SIP Session Initiation Protocol

SKU Stock Keeping Unit

SLA Software License or Service Level Agreement

SLI Scalable Link Interface

SMART Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology

SMB Server Message Block

SMM Social Media Marketing

SMS Short Message Service

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

SO-DIMM Small Outline Dual In-Line Memory Module

SOA Service Oriented Architecture

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol

SQL Structured Query Language

SRAM Static Random Access Memory

sRGB Standard Red Green Blue

SSD Solid State Drive

SSH Secure Shell

SSID Service Set Identifier

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TFT Thin-Film Transistor

TIFF Tagged Image File Format

TTL Time To Live

TWAIN Toolkit Without An Informative Name

UAT User Acceptance Testing

UDDI Universal Description Discovery and Integration

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UGC User Generated Content

UML Unified Modeling Language

UNC Universal Naming Convention

UPnP Universal Plug and Play

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply

URI Uniform Resource Identifier

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USB Universal Serial Bus

UTF Unicode Transformation Format

VCI Virtual Channel Identifier

VDSL Very High Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Line

VDU Visual Display Unit

VFAT Virtual File Allocation Table

VGA Video Graphics Array

VLB VESA Local Bus

VLE Virtual Learning Environment

VoIP Voice Over Internet Protocol

VPI Virtual Path Identifier

VPN Virtual Private Network

VRAM Video Random Access Memory

VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

WAIS Wide Area Information Server

WAMP Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP

WAN Wide Area Network

WDDM Windows Display Driver Model

WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy

Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity

WIMP Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer

WINS Windows Internet Name Service

WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access

WWW World Wide Web

XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

XML Extensible Markup Language

XMP Extensible Metadata Platform

XSLT Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformation

Y2K Year 2000

ZIF Zero Insertion Force