| ADSL |
Asynchronous Digital Subscriber
Line |
| AOL |
America Online |
| ASP |
Application Service Provider |
| ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| BBS |
Bulletin Board System |
| BCC |
Blind Carbon Copy |
| BPS |
Bits Per Second |
| BRI |
Basic Rate Interface |
| CAD |
Computer Aided Design |
| CC |
Carbon Copy |
| CCS |
Cascading Style Sheet |
| CDA |
Communications Decency Act |
| CDF |
Channel Definition Format |
| CGI |
Common Gateway Interface |
| COM |
Component Object Model |
| CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker
Architecture |
| DCOM |
Distributed Component Object
Model |
| DES |
Data Encryption Standard
|
| DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol |
| DHTML |
Dynamic Hypertext Mark-up
Language |
| DOM |
Document Object Model |
| DNS |
Domain Name System |
| DSL |
Digital Subscriber Line (or
Loop) |
| EDI |
Electronic Data interchange |
| EFF |
Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions |
| FDM |
Frequency-Division Multiplexing |
| FSF |
Free Software Foundation |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
| GPRS |
General Packet Radio Service |
| GSM |
Global System for Mobile
Communications |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| HDML |
Handheld Devices Mark-up
Language |
| HTCPCP |
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control
Protocol |
| HTML |
Hypertext Mark-up Language |
| HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| IAB |
Internet Architecture Board |
| IANA |
Internet Assigned Names
Authority |
| ICANN |
Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names & Numbers |
| ICQ |
I Seek You |
| IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IM |
Instant Messaging |
| IMAP |
Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IOTP |
Internet Open Trading Protocol |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IPO |
Initial Public Offering |
| IRC |
Internet Relay Chat |
| IRL |
In Real Life |
| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital
Network |
| ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
| JANET |
Joint Academic Network |
| JIT |
Just In Time |
| JPEG |
Joint Picture Experts Group (or
JPG) |
| Kbps |
Kilobits per second |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol |
| LINX |
London Internet Exchange |
| MANAP |
Manchester Network Access Point |
| Mbps |
Millions of bits per second |
| Mbone |
Multicast Backbone |
| MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions |
| MOO |
MUD Object Oriented |
| MSN |
Microsoft Network |
| MPEG |
Motion Picture Experts Group |
| MUD |
Multi-user Dungeon |
| NAP |
Network Access Point |
| NASDAQ |
National Association of
Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system |
| NC |
Network Computer |
| NCSA |
National Centre For
Supercomputing Applications |
| NNTP |
Network News Transport Protocol |
| OPS |
Open Profiling Standard |
| ORB |
Object Request Broker |
| OS |
Operating System |
| OSI |
Open Source Initiative |
| PANS |
Public Access Network Services |
| PCS |
Personal Communications Service |
| PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
| PGP |
Pretty Good Privacy |
| PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure |
| PICS |
Platform for Internet Content
Selection |
| POP |
Point of Presence |
| POP3 |
Post Office Protocol (latest
version) |
| POTS |
Plain Old Telephone Service |
| PPP |
Point-to-Point Protocol |
| PRI |
Primary Rate Interface |
| PVC |
Permanent Virtual Circuit |
| QoS |
Quality of Service |
| RFC |
Request For Comments |
| RSAC |
Recreational Software Advisory
Council |
| SDMI |
Secure Digital Music Initiative |
| SET |
Secure Electronic Transactions |
| SMS |
Short Messaging Service |
| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
| SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
| SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer |
| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
| TCP/IP |
Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TDM |
Time-Division Multiplexing |
| TLA |
Three-Letter Acronym |
| TLD |
Top-level domain |
| TTP |
Trusted Third Party |
| UDDI |
Universal Description, Discovery
and Integration |
| URI |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
| UUCP |
Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol |
| vBNS |
Very High Speed Backbone Network
Service |
| VM |
Virtual Machine |
| VOIP |
Voice Over IP |
| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
| VRML |
Virtual Reality Modelling
Language |
| W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAP |
Wireless Application Protocol |
| WASP |
Wireless Application Service
Provider |
| WDM |
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing |
| WELL |
Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link' |
| WIPO |
World Intellectual Property
Organisation |
| WML |
Wireless Mark-up Language |
| WSDL |
Web Services Description
Language |
| XHTML |
Extensible Hypertext
Mark-up Language |
| XML |
Extensible Mark-up Language |
| XSL |
Extensible
Stylesheet Language |
| XTLA |
Extended Three-Letter Acronym |
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