This is a list of many common (and maybe not so common) acronyms related to computers and the internet.
If you know of an acronym that you feel should be listed, then please feel free to e-mail us.
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| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APNIC | Asia Pacific Network Information Center |
| ARIN | American Registry for Internet Numbers |
| ASP | Active Server Pages |
| ATM | Asynchronious Transfer Mode |
| BPS | Bits Per Second |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc - Read Only Memory |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
| DB | DataBase |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
| DUN | Dial-Up Networking |
| DVD | Digital Video Disc |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FD | Floppy Drive |
| FDD | Floppy Disk Drive |
| FPU | Floating Point Unit |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GB | GigaByte |
| GPL | General Public License |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HD | Hard Drive |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
| IIS | Internet Information Server |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| IRQ | Interrupt ReQuest |
| IS | Information Services |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | Information Technology |
| JS | JavaScript |
| JSP | Java Server Pages |
| KB | KiloByte |
| KBPS | KiloBits Per Second |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| MB | MegaByte |
| MIS | Management Information Services |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NNTP | Network News Transport Protocol |
| NOC | Network Operations Center |
| NOS | Network Operating System |
| NS | Name Server |
| OS | Operating System |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| POP | Post Office Protocol |
| POST | Power On Self Test |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independant Disks |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RAS | Remote Access Server |
| RDBMS | Relational DataBase Management System |
| RFC | Request For Comments |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| SCSI | Small Computer Systems Interface |
| SDSL | Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| SGML | Standard Generalised Markup Language |
| SMART | Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SOHO | Small Office Home Office |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SVGA | Super Visual Graphics Array |
| TB | TerraByte |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| URN | Uniform Resource Name |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| VGA | Visual Graphics Array |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| XHTML | eXtensible HyperText Markup Language |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
