Internet Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Internet Acronyms

• FDHD — Floppy Drive, High Density
• FDM — Frequency Division Multiplexing
• FF — Form Feed
• FFS — Flash File System
• FIF — Fractal Image Format
• FIFO — First In, First Out
• FLOPS — Floating-point Operations Per Second
• FORTRAN — Formula Translator; Programming Language
• FPM RAM — Fast Page Mode RAM
• FPU — Floating-Point Unit
• FR — Frame Relay
• FRAD — Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler
• FRAM — Ferroelectric RAM
• FSK — Frequency Shift Keying
• FSP — File Service Protocol
• FTP — File Transfer Protocol
• FWIW — For What It’s Worth
• FYI — For Your Information
• GBE — Gigabit Ethernet
• GDI — Graphics Device Interface
• GIF — Graphical Interchange Format
• GIGO — Garbage In, Garbage Out
• GIMP — General (GNU) Image Manipulation Program
• GIS — Geographic Information System
• GM — General MIDI
• GMT — Greenwich Mean Time
• GNU — Recursive Acronym For ?GNU’s Not Unix?
• GPF — General Protection Fault
• GPRS — General Packet Radio Service
• GPS — Global Positioning Satellite (System)
• GREP — Globally Search For The Regular Expression And Print
• GREP — Generalized Regular Expression Pattern-matcher
• GRINS — Graphical Interface To SMIL
• GSM — Global System For Mobiles
• GUI — Graphical User Interface
• GUID — Globally Unique Identifier
• HAL — Hardware Abstraction Layer
• HD — High Density
• HD — Hard Drive
• HDD — Hard Disk Drive
• HDLC — High-level Data Link Control
• HDML — Handheld Device Markup Language
• HDR — High Data Rate
• HDTV — High-Definition Television
• HFS — Hierarchical Filing System
• HMA — High Memory Area
• HMD — Head-Mounted Display
• HP — Hewlett-Packard
• HP-GL — Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
• HPAS — Hypermedia Presentation And Authoring System
• HPFS — High Performance File System
• HSL — Hypermedia Synchronization Language
• HSM — Hierarchical Storage Management
• HTML — Hypertext Markup Language
• HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• HTTPD — Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon (Server)
• I/O — Input/Output
• IAB — Internet Architecture Board
• IAC — Internet Access Coalition
• IAD — Integrated Access Device
• IAHC — Internet International Ad Hoc Committee
• IANA — Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
• IANAL — I Am Not A Lawyer
• IAS — Internet Authentication Service
• IBM — International Business Machines
• ICA — Independent Computing Architecture
• ICANN — The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers
• ICMP — Internet Control Message Protocol
• IDE — Intelligent (Integrated) Drive Electronics
• IDEA — International Data Encryption Algorithm
• IDSL — ISDN Digital Subscriber Line
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical And Electronics Engineers
• IETF — Internet Engineering Task Force
• IGES — Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
• IGMP — Internet Group Management Protocol
• IIM — Internet Interaction Management
• IIOP — Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
• IIS — Internet Information Server
• IMAP — Internet Message Access Protocol
• IMHO — In My Humble Opinion
• INTERNIC — Internet Network Information Center
• IOS — Input Output System
• IP — Internet Protocol
• IPSEC — Internet Protocol Security
• IPTV — Internet Protocol Television
• IPX — Internetwork Packet Exchange
• IRC — Internet Relay Chat
• IRDA — Infrared Data Association
• IRQ — Interrupt Request
• ISA — Industry Standard Architecture
• ISAM — Indexed Sequential Access Method
• ISAPI — Internet Server API
• ISDN — Integrated Services Digital Network
• ISO — International Organization For Standardization
• ISP — Internet Service Provider
• ITU — International Telecommunications Union
• IX — Internet Exchange
• JBIG — Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group
• JCL — Job Control Language
• JDBC — Java Database Connectivity