- 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
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