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Updated 7-2-00

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An acronym is a word formed from an abbreviation.  A good example of an acronym is the word "SCUBA".  This is derived from the words: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apperatus.

Do you know the origins of the following acronyms??

Common Acronyms

  Computer "Chat" Phrases

Companies & Organizations

Computer Acronyms

Rock Band Acronyms

 

Common Acronyms

Dead On Arrival   DOA TriNiTrotoluene   TNT Rapid Eye Movement   REM
Computerized Axial Tomography   CAT scan SEa-Air-Land unitS   SEALS Tele-Active Shock Electronic Repulsion   TASER
All Terrain Vehicle   ATV Radio Detecting And Ranging (Military)   RADAR Absent Without Leave (Military)   AWOL
Situation Normal, All "Fouled" Up (Military)   SNAFU Certified Public Accountant   CPA Have A Nice Day!   HAND
Do It Yourself   DIY Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning   HVAC Master of Business Administration   MBA
Cash On Delivery   COD Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation   LASER The Great Lakes Region (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior)   HOMES
As Soon As Possible   ASAP "Fouled" Up Beyond All Recognition   FUBAR Frequently Asked Questions   FAQ
Répondez S'il Vous Plaît (French: `Please reply', on formal invitations)   RSVP Ante Meridiem (before noon)   AM Post Meridiem (after noon)   PM
Zone Improvement Plan (US post office)   ZIP Young Urban Professional (plus slang "Y" ending )   YUPPIE Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid   DNA
Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning (just a joke)   ACRONYM Grand Old Party (the Repulican party)   GOP Electronic Data Interchange   EDI
Scholastic Aptitude Test   SAT Digital Versatile (or Video) Disc   DVD Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury (from Cap'n Marvel)   SHAZAM
Equal Rights Amendment or Earned Run Average (Baseball)   ERA (2) Prisoner Of War   POW Equal Opportunity Employer   EOE
Save Our Ship   SOS ElectroKardioGramm   EKG Uninterruptible Power Supply   UPS
World Wide Web   WWW Sealed With A Kiss   SWAK Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (DisneyWorld)   EPCOT
Emergency Medical Services   EMS Please Be Patient, God Isn't Finised With Me Yet   PBPGIFWMY LySergic Acid Diethylamide   LSD
Intensive Care Unit   ICU Technical Knock Out (Boxing)   TKO Special Interest Group   SIG
Very Important Person   VIP Also Known As   AKA Tender Loving Care   TLC
For Your Information   FYI Thank God It's Friday   TGIF Single Income, No Boyfriend, Absolutely Desperate   SINBAD
Individual Retirement Account   IRA Human Immuno-deficiency Virus   HIV Gross National Product   GNP
Missing In Action   MIA Stock Keeping Unit   SKU Extra Sensory Perception   ESP
Special Weapons And Tactics   SWAT Total Cost of Ownership   TCO General Equivalency Diploma   GED
Video Home System   VHS ElectroStatic Discharge   ESD Total Quality Management   TQM
Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Latin: as it has been proven)   QED What Would Jesus Do?   WWJD Manufacturing Resource Planning   MRP
Most Valuable Player   MVP Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (Military)   MASH What You See Is What You Get (pronounced: WIZZY-WIG)   WYSIWYG

 

Computer "Chat" Phrases

As Far As I Know   AFAIK Be Right Back   BRB See Ya (Later)   CYA / CYAL8R
In My Humble (or Honest) Opinion   IMHO See Ya Soon   SYS Long Time No See   LTNS
Keep In Touch   KIT By The Way..........   BTW Laughing Out Loud   LOL
Just Kidding   JK Rolls On The Floor Laughing   ROTFL  Great Minds Think Alike   GMTA
I See   IC For What It's Worth   FWIW The Powers That Be   TPTB
Ta Ta For Now   TTFN On The Other Hand   ONOH In Real Life   IRL
Stupid Person's AdvertiseMent   SPAM Away From Keyboard   AFK Thanks In Advance   TIA

 

 

Companies & Organizations

Radio Corporation of America   RCA Entertainment Sports Programming Network   ESPN Human Immuno-deficiency Virus   HUD
Financial Accounting Standards Board   FASB Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries   OPEC Immigration and Naturalization Service   INS
Food and Drug Administration   FDA Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing   3M American Corporate Marketing Empire   ACME
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopaznosti (Soviet Intelligence Agency)   KGB International Business Machines (also "Ignorant Blue Machine")   IBM Federal Bureau of Investigation   FBI
INTegrated ELectronics   INTEL Federal Emergency Management Agency   FEMA Bradley Vorhees & Dey   BVD
Fabbrica Italiana Automobile Torino (also "Fix It Again, Tony!!)   FIAT AMerican Oil COmpany   AMOCO Environmental Protection Agency   EPA
Bavarian Motor Works   BMW Head, Heart, Hands, Health   4H Mothers Against Drunk Driving   MADD
COMputers, COMunications & COMpatibility   3COM Federal Communications Commission   FCC NAtional BIScuit COmpany   NABISCO
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund   UNICEF Japan Victor Corporation   JVC Federal Insurance Contributions Act   FICA
North Atlantic Treaty Organization   NATO United Parcel Service   UPS Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela (Italian for `Italy wishes Death to France)   MAFIA
Microwave Communications Incorporated   MCI National Association for the Advancement of Colored People   NAACP United Press International   UPI
Grand Old Party, yes the Republicans!   GOP American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals   ASPCA American Standard Code for Information Interchange   ASCII
Young Men's Christian Association   YMCA National Rifle Assoociation   NRA Metro-Goldwyn Mayer   MGM
National Aeronautics and Space Administration   NASA National Collegiate Athletic Association   NCAA The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software   TUCOWS
International Business Machines, or Inferior But Marketable   IBM Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network   CSPAN Nippon Electric Company   NEC

 

Computer Related

Computer-Aided Design   CAD Universal Serial Bus   USB American National Standards Institute   ANSI
Industry Standard Architecture   ISA American Standard Code for Information Interchange   ASCII Basic Input/Outpur System   BIOS
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code   BASIC COmmon Business Oriented Language   COBOL Internet Service Provider   ISP
Video Graphics Adapter/Array/Accelerator (you choose)   VGA File Allocation Table   FAT Compact Disk - Read Only Memory   CD-ROM
Small Computer Systems Interface   SCSI Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks   RAID Graphical User Interface   GUI
Optical Character Recognition   OCR File Transfer Protocol   FTP Cathode Ray Tube   CRT
Liquid Crystal Display   LCD Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol   TCP/IP New Technology (Microsoft)   NT
Uniform Resource Locator (Internet)   URL Random Access Memory   RAM Light Emitting Diode   LED
Disk Operating System   DOS Musical Instrument Digital Interface   MIDI Original Equipment Manufacturer   OEM


Ever wonder what those file extensions meant?...

Graphics Interchange Format   GIF Audio Visual Interleaved   AVI Moving Pictures Expert Group   MPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group   JPEG Active Server Pages   ASP Comma-Separated Variables   CSV
Portable Document Format (Acrobat)   PDF Component (or Common) Object Model   COM HyperText Markup Language   HTML

 

Rock Bands

Electric Light Orchestra   ELO Crosby, Stills & Nash   CSN Blue Oyster Cult   BOC
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (rare correct spelling!!)   OMD Emerson, Lake and Palmer   ELP Creedence Clearwater Revival   CCR
Bachman Turner Overdrive   BTO Average White Band   AWB

 

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