Acronyms & Abbreviations
The following is a list of web related acronyns and abbreviations.
API - Application Programming Interfaces
ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
ASP – Active Server Pages
BOOTP – Boot Protocol
CGI – Common Gateway Interface
CPU – Central Processing Unit
CSS – Cascading Style Sheets
DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
FTP – File Transfer Protocol
Gb – Gigabyte
hex – hexadecimal
HTML – Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS – Secure HTTP
ICMP – Internet Control Message Protocol
ICT – Information & Communication Technology
IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force
IP – Internet Protocol
IMAP – Internet Message Access Protocol
ISO – International Organization for Standardization
IT – Information Technology
JS – Javascript
Kb – Kilobyte
LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
MAC – Media Access Control
MAC – Apple Macintosh
Mb – Megabyte
MIME – Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIT- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MySQL – “My” is a girl’s name + Structured Query Language
NTP – Network Time Protocol
OOP – Object-oriented programming
OS – Operating System
PC – Personal Computer
PHP – Hypertext Preprocessor (originally stood for personal home page)
PNG – Portable Network Graphics
POP – Post Office Protocol
PPTP – Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
RAM – Random Access Memory
RARP – Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RDF – Resource Description Framework
RIA – Rich Internet Application
RSS – Really Simple Syndication
SGML – Standard Generalized Markup Language
SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol
SQL – Structured Query Language
SSL – Secure Sockets Layer
Tb – Terabyte
TCP – Transmission Control Protocol
URL – Uniform Resource Locator
URI – Uniform Resource Identifier
VB – Visual Basic
VBS – Visual Basic Script
W3C – World Wide Web Consortium
WHATWG – Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
WWW – World Wide Web
XHTML – Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML – Extensible Markup Language