Abbreviations

ANSI: American National Standards Institute

ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency

ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AUP: Acceptable Use Policy

BBS: Bulletin Board System

BIOS: Basic Input Output System

BPS: Bits Per Second

CIX: Commercial Information Exchange

CPU: Central Processing Unit

DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

GB: Gigabyte

GIF: Graphics Interchange Format

GUI: Graphical User Interface

HTML: Hypertext Markup Langauge

HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics

IP: Internet Protocol

IRC: Internet Relay Chat

ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO: International Standards Organization

ISP: Internet Service Provider

JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group

K: Kilobyte

LAN: Local Area Network

MAN: Metropolitan Area Network

MB: Megabyte

MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MPEG: Motion Picture Experts Group

MUD: Multi-User Domain

NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NSF: National Science Foundation

OS: Operating System

P2P: Peer to Peer

PC: Personal Computer

PDF: Portable Document Format

PPP: Point to Point Protocol

RAM: Random Access Memory

ROM: Read-Only Memory

SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface

SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol

SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SQL: Structured Query Language

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TWAIN: This is not actually an acronym for anything, although some accept it to mean “Technology Without An Interesting Name”.

URL: Uniform Resource Locator

VRML: Virtual Reality Markup Language

WAN: Wide Area Network

WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get