A

ABR

Available Bit Rate

ANN

Artificial Neural Network

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

API

Application Programming Interface

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

B

BBS

Bulletin Board System

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System

BSOD

Blue Screen Of Death

BSRAM

Burst Static Random Access Memory

C

CBR

Constant Bit Rate

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CMIP

Common Management Information Protocol

CMOS

Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

D

DES

Data Encryption Standard

DCOM

Distributed Component Object Model

DDOS

Distributed Denial of Service

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHTML

Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language

DIMM

Dual In-line Memory Module

DIP

Dual In-line Package

DLL

Dynamic Link Library

DNS

Domain Name Service

DOD

Department Of Defense

DOM

Document Object Model

DOS

Disk Operating System

DoS

Denial of Service

DRAM

Dynamic Random Access Memory

DSA

Digital Signature Algorithm

DSOM

Distributed System Object Model

E

E DRAM

Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory

EDO RAM

Extended Data-out Random Access Memory

EIDE

Enhanced Imbedded Drive Electronics

F

FAT

File Allocation Table

FLOPS

Floating-point Operations Per Second

FPU

Floating Point Unit

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

G

GGP

Gateway to Gateway Protocol

GIF

Graphics Image Format

GNU

Gnu's Not Unix

GUI

Graphical User Interface

H

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IDE

Imbedded Drive Electronics

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IGMP

Internet Group Message Protocol

IMP

Interface Message Processor

IP

Internet Protocol

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network (or, It still does nothing)

ISO

International Organization for Standardization (not an acronym: from Greek "iso")

IRQ

Interrupt Request

J

JDK

Java Development Kit

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

K

KDE

K Desktop Environment

L

LAN

Local Area Network

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display

LED

Light Emitting Diode

M

MFLOPS

Mega Floating-ping Operations Per Second

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MIPS

Million Instructions Per Second

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group

N

NAT

Network Address Translation

NetBEUI

NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface

NDS

Novell Directory System

NN

Neural Network (see also ANN)

NNTP

News Network Transfer Protocol

NFS

Network File System

NIC

Network Interface Card

NT

New Technology (Windows NT (actually somewhat oxy-moronically in this case))

NV RAM

Non Volatile Random Access Memory

O

OCX

OLE Custom control (don't ask me why the 'X' is there)

OLE

Object Linking and Embedding

OOB

Out Of Band

OSI

Open Systems Interconnect

P

PAP

Password Authentication Protocol

PCI

Peripheral Component Interface

PCMCIA

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy

POP3

Post Office Protocol v3

POSIX

Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX

PPP

Point to Point Protocol

PPTP

Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

Q

QTM, MOV, QT

QuickTime Movie

QoS -

Quality of Service

R

RAM

Random Access Memory

RARP

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RFC

Request for Comments

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computing

ROM

Read Only Memory

RTF

Rich Text Format

S

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

SDK

Software Development Kit

SGML

Standardized General Markup Language

SHA

Secure Hash Algorithm

SHS

Secure Hash Standard

SIMM

Single In-line Memory Module

SLIP

Serial Line Internet Protocol

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SPX

Sequenced Packet exchange

SRAM

Static Random Access Memory

SS7

Signaling System 7

SSI

Server Side Include

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

SQL

Structured Query Language

SVGA

Super Video Graphics Array

T

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TEMPEST

Transient Electro Magnetic Pulse Emanation Standard (is or isn't actually an acronym, depending on who you ask)

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

U

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

UBR

Unspecified Bit Rate

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UNICS

UNiplexed Information and Computing System

UNIX

(See UNICS)

URL/URI

Uniform Resource Locator/Indicator

USB

Universal Serial Bus

UTP

Unshielded Twisted Pair

V

VBR

Variable Bit Rate

VGA

Video Graphics Array

VPN

Virtual Private Network

VR

Virtual Reality

W

WAIS

Wide Area Information Server

WAN

Wide Area Network

WWW

World Wide Web

WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get

X

XMS

extended Memory Specification

XML

extended Markup Language

Y

YAPS

Yet Another Port Scanner

YAST

Yet Another Setup Tool