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AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AKA Also Known As
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
A/S/L Age/Sex/Location
B/C BeCause (frequently just "b/c")
BASIC Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BBS Bulletin Board System
BF Boyfriend
BS Bull S**t
BSOD Blue Screen Of Death (Windows fatal system error)
BTW By The Way
CDC Centers for Disease Control and prevention
COBOL COmmon Business-Oriented Language
CRPG Character (or computer) Role Playing Game
CYA Cover Your Ass
D/L Download
DILLIGAFF Does I Look Like I Give a Flying F**k?
DMA Direct Memory Access
DOA Dead On Arrival
DOB Date/Day Of Birth
EBCDIC Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Information Code
Esso Significant Other (from SO)
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
ETD Estimated Time of Departure
FAQ Frequently Asked Question(s)
FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation (the first high-level computer language)
FTL Faster Than Light
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FUBAR F**ked Up Beyond All Repair/Recognition
FYI For Your Information
GF Girlfriend
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIGO Garbage In, Gospel Out (people accepting blindly what the computer says)
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GPF General Protection Fault (Windows fatal system error)
HHGTTG HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy
HP Home Page
HTML HyperText Markup Language
HWP Height and Weight Proportional
ICBM InterContinental Ballistic Missile
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IIRC If I Recall/Remember Correctly
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMVHO In My Very Humble Opinion
IOW In Other Words
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRL In Real Life
IRQ Interrupt ReQuest
ISP Internet Service Provider
J/K Just Kidding
JATO Jet-Assisted Take Off (also RATO: Rocket...)
JIC Just In Case
K oKay
KISS Keep It Simple, Stupid (or: Keep It Stupidly Simple)
KUTGW Keep Up The Good Work
LART Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LUSER Loser USER
Mac Apple Macintosh personal computer
MUD Multi-User Domain (or Dungeon)
MUCK Multi-User Experience (from MUX, playfully treated as a plural ["MUCKS"]; to go along with the concept of MUD)
MUX Multi-User eXperience
MUX Multiplex
NB Nota Bene (note well)
NFG No F**king Good
NFW No F**king Way
NIH Not Invented Here
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard
NIST National Institute for Standards and Technology
NP No Problem
NPF No Problem Found
OMG Oh My God!
OOTB Out Of The Box
OS Operating System
OS/2 Operating System 2 (IBM OS for PC's)
OT Off Topic
OTC Over The Counter
OTOH On The Other Hand
PBM Play-By-Mail (games)
PC Personal Computer
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCMCIA People Can't Master/Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PDA Personal Digital Assistant (palmtop computer)
PDA Public Display of Affection
PDQ Pretty Damn Quick
PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
PhD Piled Higher and Deeper.
PL/I Programming Language One
POM Phase Of the Moon
POP Post Office Protocol
POS Point Of Sale
POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
POV Point Of View
PPL PeoPLe
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PS Post Scriptum
PT Physical Training; Physical Therapy
QED Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Latin: "which was to be demonstrated," used at the end of a proof)
RA Research Assistant; Resident Assistant
RATO Rocket-Assisted Take Off (also JATO: Jet...)
RE REgarding
RL Real Life
ROFL Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROFLMAO Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROFLOL Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud
ROTF Rolling On The Floor
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
RPG Role Playing Game(s)
RSN Real Soon Now
RTM Read The Manual
RTFM Read The F**king Manual
SEC SECond, e.g. Wait a sec
SGML Standardized General Markup Language
SIG Special Interest Group
SLIP Single Line-In Protocol; Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNAFU Situation Normal: All F**ked Up
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SO Significant Other (also: Esso)
SOL S**t Out of Luck
SOP Standing Operational Procedures; Standard Operating Procedure
ST Star Trek
ST-DS9 Star Trek: Deep Space 9
ST-TNG Star Trek: The Next Generation
ST-TOS Star Trek: The Original Series
ST-VOY Star Trek: Voyager
STFU Shut The F**k Up
SWAG Scientific Wild-Assed Guess
SWAK Sealed With A Kiss
SYSADMIN SYStem ADMINistrator
SYSOP SYStem OPerator (bulletin board administrator)
TA Teaching Assistant
TANJ There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TFB Too F**king Bad
TFS Three-Finger Salute (Ctrl-Alt-Del)
TGIF Thank God It's Friday
THX Thanks (as in THanX)
TLC Tender Loving Care
TQM Total Quality Management
TSR Terminate-and-Stay-Resident program
TWAIN (joke) Technology Without An Interesting Name
U/L Upload
UAE Unrecoverable Application Error (bane of Windows users!)
UL Urban Legend (modern tall tale)
USU USUally (frequently just "usu.")
VR Virtual Reality
W/ With (frequently just "w/")
W/O WithOut (frequently just "w/o")
WIMP Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointing devices (Operating System format)
WRT With Regard To; With Respect To
WTF What The F**k
WWW World Wide Web; World Wide Waste; World Wide Waiting; World Wild Web
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
XTML eXtended hyperText Markup Language
Y2K Year 2000 (2000 = 2K)
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary; literally, "your experience may differ"
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