# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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3G	Third-generation

A

ACL	Access Control List
AIF	Audio Interchange Format
AID	Advertiser ID
AIP	Association of Internet Professionals
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
AJAX	Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
API	Application Program Interface
ARP	Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ACE	Accredited System Engineer
ASF	Advanced Streaming Format
ASIN	Amazon.com Standard Item Number
ASP	Active Server Pages or Application Service Provider
ASPN	Apple Solution Professionals Network
ATM	Asychronous Transfer Mode

B

B2B	Business to Business
B2C	Business to Consumer
BBS	Bulletin Board System
bin	Binary
bps	Bits Per Second
BLOB	Binary Large Object
BLOG	Web Log
BSD	Berkley Software Distribution

CAD	Computer Aided Design
CAT-5	Category 5
CCA	Citrix Certified Administrator
CCDA	Cisco Certified Design Associate
CCDP	Cisco Certified Design Professional
CCEA	Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator
CCI	Citrix Certified Instructor
CCIP	Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional
CCNP	Cisco Certified Network Professional
CCNA	Cisco Certified Network Administrator
CERN	European Particle Physics Laboratory
CFML	Cold Fusion Markup Language
CCSP	Citrix Certified Sales Professional
CCIE	Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert
CSS	Cascading Style Sheet
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
CHAP	Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHMOD	Change Mode
CHTML	Compact HTML
CISSP	Certified Information System Security Professional
CIW	Certified Internet Webmaster
CMS	Content Management System
CNA	Certified Novell Administrator
CNE	Certified Novell Engineer
COM	Component Object Model
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CPA	Cost Per Action
CPM	Cost Per Thousand Impressions
CPC	Cost Per Click
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CRM	Customer Relationship Management
CSU	Channel Service Unit
CSV	Comma Separated Value
CTEC	Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center
CTO	Chief Technology Officer
CWNA	Certified Wireless Network Administrator
CWNI	Certified Wireless Network Integrator
CWNE	Certified Wireless Networking Expert
CWNP	Certified Wireless Network Professional
CYMK	Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
CWP	Certified Web Professional
CWSP	Certified Wireless Security Professional

DB	Database
DBA	Database Administrator
DBMS	Database Management System
DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model
DDE	Dynamic Data Exchange
DDS	Digital Data Storage
DIR	Directory
DIVX	Digital Video Express
DLC	Data Link Control
DMOZ	Directory Mozilla
DNS	Domain Name Service
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHTML	Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language
DSU	Data Service Unit
DTD	Document Type Definition
DLL	Dynamic Link Library
DOM	Document Object Model
DRM	Digital Restrictions Management
DSL	Digital Subscriber Line

ECMA	European Computer Manufacturer's Association
EOF	End of File

FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions
FAT	File Allocation Table
FDDI	Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FFA	Free For All
FSF	Free Software Foundation
FTP	File Transfer Protocol

G

Gbps	Giga Bits Per Second
GBps	Giga Bytes Per Second
GHz	Gigahertz
Gbps	Giga Bits Per Second
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format
GIMP	GNU Image Manipulation Program
GML	Generalized Markup Language
GPL	GNU Public License
GREP	Global Regular Expression Print
GUI	Graphical User Interface

HCL	Hardware Compatibility List
HDML	Handheld Device Markup Language
HSB	Hue Saturation Brightness
HTI	Home Technology Integrator
HTML	Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP	HTTP
HWG	HTML Writers Guild

I

IAB	Internet Architecture Board
IANA	Assigned Numbers Authority
ICANN	Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICII	Internet Certification Institute International
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IIS	Internet Information Server
IMAP	Internet Messaging Access Protocol
IPC	Interprocess Communication
IPX	Internet network Packet Exchange
IRTF	Internet Research Task Force
ISAPI	Internet Server API
ISBN	International Standard Book Number
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO	International Standards Organization
ISOC	Internet Society
ISP	Internet Service Provider
IT	Information Technology
ITU	International Telecomunications Union
IWA	International Webmasters Association

J2EE	Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition
JAR	Java Archive
JDBC	Java Database Connectivity
JIT	Just In Time
JDK	Java Development Kit
JPEG	Joint Photographics Expert Group
JSP	Java Server Page
JVM	Java Virtual Machine

Kbps	Kilo Bits Per Second
KBps	Kilo Bytes Per Second
KDE	K Desktop Environment

L

LAMP	Linux Apache MySQL PHP
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LILO	Last In Last Out
LSASS	Local Security Authority Subsystem Service
LSI	Latent Semantic Indexing

MAC	Media Access Control
Mbps	Mega Bits Per Second
MBps	Mega Bytes Per Second
MCAD	Microsoft Certified Application Developer
MCDBA	Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
MCSD	Microsoft Certified Systems Developer
MCP	Microsoft Certified Professional
MCSE	Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
MFA	Made for AdSense
MIB	Management Information Base
MIME	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MMC	Microsoft Management Console
MOUS	Microsoft Office User Specialist
MP3	MPEG Layer 3
MPEG	Moving Picture Experts Group

NAP	Network Access Point
NCSA	National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NIC	Network Interface Card
NTFS	NT File System

OCS	Open Content Syndication
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity
ODP	Open Directory Project
OEM	Original Equipment Manufacturer
OLE	Object Linking and Embedding
OOP	Object Oriented Programming
OPML	Outline Processor Markup Language
OS	Operating System
OSI	Open System Interconnection
OSPF	Open Shortest Path First

PAD	Portable Application Description
PDA	Personal Digital Assistant
PDF	Portable Document Format
PERL	Practical Extraction and Report Language
PGP	Pretty Good Privacy
PHP	Hypertext Preprocessor
PID	Publisher ID
PNG	Portable Network Graphics
POP	Post Office Protocol
PSK	Pre-shared key
PPC	Pay Per Click
PPP	Point to Point Protocol
PPTP	Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
PR	Page Rank

QOS

Quality of Service

RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAS	Remote Access Server
RDBMS	Relational Database Management System
RDF	Resource Decription Framework
RFC	Request For Comments
RGB	Red, Green, Blue
RHCE	Red Hat Certified Engineer
RHCP	Red Hat Certified Professional
RIP	Routing Information Protocol
RMON	Remote Monitoring
ROI	Return on Investment
RON	Run of Network
ROS	Run of Site
RSS	Rich Site Summary
RTF	Rich Text Format

S

SAP	Service Advertising Protocol
SAX	Simple API for XML
SCNA	Security Certified Network Architect
SCNP	Security Certified Network Professional
SCP	Security Certified Program
SDK	Software Development Kit
SED	Stream Editor
SGML	Standard Generalized Markup Language
SEM	Search Engine Marketing
SEO	Search Engine Optimization
SERP	Search Engine Results Page
SID	Security Identifier
SLIP	Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMIL	Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMP	Simple Management Protocol
SMS	Systems Management Server
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNA	Systems Network Architecture
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
SPX	Sequenced Packet Exchange
SQL	Structure Query Language
SSH	Secure Shell
SSI	Server Side Include
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer
SVG	Scalable Vector Graphics

T

	TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
	TFTP	Trivial File Transfer Protocol
	TLD	Top Level Domain
	TKIP	Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
	TLS	Transport Layer Security
	TTL	Time To Live
	TOS	Terms of Service
	TTL	Time To Live

U

UCE	Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (spam)
UDDI	Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
UI	User Interface
UML	Unified Modeling Language
UMTS	Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
URL	Uniform Resource Locator

Veronica	Very Easy Rodent Oriented Network Index to Computer Archives
Voxel	A Three dimensional pixel
VM	Virtual Machine
VLAN	Virtual LAN
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VRML	Virtual Reality Markup Language
VTAM	Virtual Telecommunications Access Method

W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WAIS	Wide Area Information Server
WAN	Wide Area Network
WAP	Wireless Application Protocol
WBT	Web-based Training
WECA	Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance
WEP	Wired Equivalency Privacy
WIPO	World Intellectual Property Organization
WLAN	Wireless Lan
Wi-Fi	Wireless Fidelity
WM	Webmaster

WML	Wireless Markup Language
WPA	Wi-Fi Protected Access
WSDL	Web Services Description Language
WWW	World Wide Web
WYSIWYG	What You See Is What You Get

XBRL	Extensible Business Reporting Language
XHTML	Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language
Xlink	XML Linking Language
XLS	Extensible Stylesheet Language
XSLT	Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
XML	Extensible Markup Language
XQL	XML Query Language
XSD	XML Schema Definition
XUL	Extensible User Interface Language

Y2K

Year 2000

ZIF

Zero Insertion Force