ALPHABET SOUP Common Internet and Computer Related Acronyms:

AFTP – Anonymous File Transfer Protocol
ANSI – American National Standards Institute
ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
DOS – Disk Operating System
FTP – Fire Transfer Protocol
GUI – Graphical User Interface
IE – Internet Explorer
ISP – Internet Service Provider
ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BBS – Bulletin Board System
BIOS – Basic Input Output System
CPU – Central Processing Unit
DNS – Domain Name Service
GB – Gigabyte
GIF – Graphic Interchange Format
HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP – Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
IDE – Integrated Drive Electronics
IP – Internet Protocol
IPX – Internet Exchange Packet
JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group format
LAN – Local Area Network
MB – Megabyte
MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
Modem – MOdulator/DEModulator
MPEG – Motion Picture Experts Group format
NIC – Network Interface Card
OS – Operating System
PC – Personal Computer
PDF – Portable Document Format
POP – Post Office Protocol
PPP – Point-to-Point Protocol
RAM – Random Access Memory
RIP – Router Information Protocol
ROM – Read Only Memory
SCSI – Small Computer Systems Interface
SLIP – Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SQL – Structured Query Language
SSL – Secure Socket Layer
TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
UPS – Uninterruptible Power Supply
URL – Universal Resource Locator
VPN – Virtual Private Network
WAN – Wide Area Network
WWW – World Wide Web