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| ACRONYMS TO USE IN CHAT ROOMS | A Casual Remark On Net You Must Shorten... They're Often Untrue Statements, Exaggerated - IRCers Not Chuckling Heartily, Although Typing 'ROFL' Or Other Meaningless Sequence. |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| AN EMAIL | A Nice Electronic Message Across Internet Lines |
Angela Brett, who promised to give Tony an email if he found an ACRONYM for INCENTIVE |
| AOL | Automatically Online Loser |
Jeff Anonymous (in reference to what many people think about users of America Online) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| APACHE | Always Pretty And Creative Html Everywhere |
Sean Lamb (Apache is the server software that runs the vast majority of the web) |
| APACHE (2) | A Program Answering Comon Http Enquiries |
Sean Lamb (Apache is the server software that runs the vast majority of web sites) |
| ASF | Advanced Spamming Format |
ASF = Advanced Streaming Format (Microsoft) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| BAUD | Blazing Access Using Dialup |
Steve Keate |
| BBN | Building Better Networks |
BBN = Bolt, Baranek & Newman, one of the companies that helped build the infrastructure of the internet. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| CABLE | Crappy Asyncronous Bandwidth Limited Experience |
SafT |
| CABLE (2) | Connect And Begin Leeching Excessively |
Angela Brett |
| CANNOT FIND SERVER | Connectivity Across Network Nodes Often Tangles Files Innocently Named. Decent Security Ever Requires Vigilance, Especially Remotely |
Sean Lamb |
| CHAT BOARDS | Can Have A 'Talk' But Only At Roaming Digits' Speed |
Angela Brett |
| CHATROOM ACRONYMS | Common, Hardly Artistic Typing Reducers... Often Original Meanings Aren't Consciously Recalled, Only Nonsense You Mechanically Say. |
Angela Brett, referring to the way many people reflexively type LOL when they didn't laugh out loud, and even go as far as typing LOLOLOLOLOLOL for emphasis, which makes no sense at all. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| CIPA | Can't I Play Anywhere? |
Thinking about what the CIPA (Childrens' Internet Protection Act) really means for American libraries and schools Re-expansions of existing acronyms People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| CIPA (2) | Censoring Internet Pages Always |
Thinking about what the CIPA (Childrens' Internet Protection Act) really means for American libraries and schools Re-expansions of existing acronyms People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| CIPA (3) | Congress Institutes Protections Awkwardly |
Thinking about what the CIPA (Childrens' Internet Protection Act) really means for American libraries and schools Re-expansions of existing acronyms People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| COMMUNITY | Connection Of Many Minds - Usually Nowadays It's Typed Yabbering. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| DIALUP | Delves Into Analogue Line's Untapped Potential |
Angela Brett |
| DNS | Dotted Numbers Synonyms |
Angela Brett (DNS usually stands for Domain Name System) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| DOMAIN NAME | Dotcom Operation Means Acquiring Internet Name Nobody's Already Made Exclusive |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DOT COM | Doesn't Own Tradable Commodities - Owes Money |
Tony McCoy O'Grady: Dotcoms usually don't 'do' much and frequently lose money or are in debt since their inception. Commerce |
| DSL | Darned Speedy Link! |
Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Digital Subscriber Line or Direct Satellite Link. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| DSL (2) | Download Something Large |
Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Digital Subscriber Line. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| DSL (7) | Dialup's So Lame! |
Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Digital Subscriber Line. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| DSL (8) | Don't Surf Lightly |
Edwin Hermann, as an alternate expansion of the more common Digital Subscriber Line. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| DSL (9) | Dunderheads Surf Loudly |
Jeff Anonymous, in reference to loud dialup modems (as opposed to Digital Subscriber Line)... no offense intended :) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| EBAY | Excellent Buys Available! Yesterday! |
Roger Williams Commerce |
| Emitting Messages Along Internet "Lines" |
Tony McCoy O'Grady | |
| Embarassingly, My Account Is Lacking |
Gavin Lambert, when his email address changed | |
| E-MAIL (2) | Electronic Memos Are In Line |
Jan Morgan |
| EMAIL ADDRESSES | Each Man's 'At' Is Like A Direct Delivery Route - Envelopes, Stamps, Streets Electronically Superseded |
Angela Brett |
| EMAIL ADDRESSES (2) | Excessive Millions Are Immediately Live After Doing Domain Registration - Eighty Similar Spams Every Second. |
Angela Brett - if you buy a domain name you can have every conceivable username @ that domain go to you, but spammers might send the same spam to many of the addresses hoping they're for separate people. |
| EMOTICON (2) | Eyes, Mouth Or Teeth - It's Copied Over Network |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| EMOTICON (3) | Ever More Obtuse - These Indicators Convey Overt Nonseriousness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying: .....there are emoticons for emotions I've neither heard of, nor experienced! %^&/> |
| EMOTICON (5) | Electronic Mail's Oft-Typed Indicator Conveying One's Nuances |
Angela Brett |
| EMOTICONS | Each Message On The Internet Contains Our Nonsensical Shapes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ENGLISH (3) | Email's Now Global - Language Is Surely Hegemonic! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Linguistics |
| EPISTLE | Everyday Post Is Slow! This Letter's Electronic. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| EUDORA | Email Utility Demonstrates Over Reaching Achievement |
Gavin Lambert, who really likes it - most of the time! |
| EUDORA (2) | Eponym's Unpronounceable. Dummies Only Rarely Accurate. |
Sean Lamb (who has heard too many users say "Endora" when they really mean "Eudora") |
| FORBIDDEN ACCESS | Finding Oneself Repulsed By Internet Domain, Do Everything Necessary About Creating Complaint - Email Someone Sensible. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to the same outage of the Acronyms forums which prompted Jeff's FOUR OH THREE. Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| FORUMS (3) | Found Online, Responses Usually Mean Something |
Sean Lamb |
| Going Off On Gigantic Lexicon Enterprise |
W. Kline | |
| GOOGLE (2) | Global Operation Often Goes Locating Expressions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| GOOGLE (3) | Great Oracle - Only Gives Live Entries |
Gavin Lambert |
| GOOGLE (5) | Google Organizes Our General Links Everyday |
Apronymous Anonymous |
| HI SPEED INTERNET | Hooray! I Surf Porn Exceedingly Efficiently! Do I Need To Eat? Rest? Nope, Ebay Time! |
Robert Anonymous |
| HOTMAIL | How One Tells Microsoft Administration Is Lacking |
Sean Lamb |
| HOTMAIL (2) | Has Own Talking Messengers At Indivdual's Location |
Jan Morgan |
| HTML | How They Make Links |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (HTML usually stands for HyperText Markup Language) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| HTTP | Here's That Titled Page |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - People seem to think that 'http://www.co.nz' is the 'name' of a page, rather than the 'address'. (HTTP usually stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| HTTP (2) | How They Transfer Pages |
Angela Brett, inspired by HTML. HTTP usually stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| INSTANT MESSAGING | Immediate Notes Speeding To Anothers Note Typing Memos, Every Second So Answers Get Instantaneous Notice Gaddingabout |
Jan Morgan |
| INTERNET (2) | International Non-Tangible Ethereal Reticule Neatly Encapsulating Technology |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| INTERNET (3) | I Need To Email Romantic Notes Everywhere Tonight |
Rico Leffanta |
| ISDN | It's So Darn Neat! |
Angela Brett Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| ISDN (2) | It Still Does Nothing |
Acronymous Anonymous Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| ISDN (3) | I See Dollars Now |
Chuck Banks Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| ISDN (4) | Is Someone Dreaming Nonsense? |
Chuck Banks Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| ISP (2) | It Starves, Profitless |
Angela Brett, as a modification of Jeff's ISP. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce |
| ISP (3) | It's Slow & Pathetic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| ISP (4) | Intermittent Squeaky Pauses |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| ISP (6) | I'm Sorely Peeved! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in reference to Jeff's ISP Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce |
| ISP (7) | Internet Stopper Plugged |
Jeff Anonymous (in reference to what'll happen when @home finally does go down the loo...well, I have AOL on the side just in case) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce |
| ISP (8) | It Seeks Profit |
Jeff Anonymous, as a modification of ISP Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce |
| LINK | Locates Internet Networked Knowledge |
Gavin Lambert |
| LOW GEAR | Leaves One Wondering... Geeks Evidently Aren't Responding. |
Angela Brett, when the IRC #math channel was rather quiet and somebody said it was in low gear. |
| MAIL ADDRESS | Mailing Address Information Lapsed! Another Disaster? Damage Reversed, Everybody See Signature |
Gavin Lambert |
| METAFILTER | Maybe Everyone That Asked For It Likes To Explore Reasoning |
Sean Lamb (expanding an unsuccesssful search) |
| MULTIBABEL | Most Uninteresting Language Typed In, But After Butchering Elicits Laughter! |
Angela Brett, referring to http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/ which uses the automated translation at babelfish.altavista.com to translate English into several different languages and back consecutively. The results can be most amusing! Science:Linguistics |
| NET | Now Everyone's Thieves |
Sean Lamb (NET, in this reference, is the acronym given by the US Congress to the No Electronic Theft Act, which is supposed to simplify criminal prosecution for distributing proprietary files online) Re-expansions of existing acronyms People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| NET PRESENT VALUE | Not Estimable! This Priceless Resource Enables Sending Electronic Notes To Virtually Anyone Living & Using Electricity. |
Angela Brett, thinking of the present value of the 'net. |
| PATENT (2) | Patent Application Truthful? Eolas Needs Tutoring |
Sean Lamb (the patent office is called to terms by the W3C with prior art on Eolas's web embedding patent) People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| PC ROMANCE (2) | Private Chat Room: Old Maids Actually Nastily Claim Exoticism |
Jeff Anonymous People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| PING | Probably Instigating No Good. |
Steve Keate, while wondering while people online were pinging him. |
| POP | Porn's Offered Plentifully |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, of Post Office Protocol. (I get more junk mail than stuff I want to read) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| POP (2) | Prolong One's Penis |
Angela Brett, in response to POP, as many spam offers to do just that. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| RSH | Real Security Hole |
The rsh (Remote SHell) daemon is one of the system processes that is often compromised for server hacks. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| SEARCH | Seek Every Available Resource Checking Hits |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication |
| SLIP | Sending Little Internet Packets |
Sean Lamb (SLIP = Serial Line Internet Protocol) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| SLOW DOWNLOAD | Serious Logjam On Web Documents Open Without Necessary Links - Obviously A Disaster |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SLOW EMAILS | Security Loophole Of Windows Eats Messages After Inundating Linux Servers? |
Angela Brett -- Email through my email forwarder has been taking a long time to arrive lately, and I wonder if it has to do with extra load on servers due to the latest Windows virus. |
| SMTP | Shove Mail Through Postbox |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (SMTP usually stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| SMTP (2) | Server Mauled The Postie? |
Angela Brett, thinking especially of an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server running Yellow Dog Linux, since SMTP is sort of like a postman, and posties often get mauled by dogs. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| SMTP (3) | Send Messages To People |
Angela Brett (SMTP usually stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| SPAM | Send People Annoying Mail |
Angela Brett |
| SPAM (2) | Stupid People Are Many |
Steve Keate, referring to the people who mindlessly forward spam. |
| SPAM (3) | Sometimes Promises Ample Money |
Angela Brett |
| SPAM (8) | Some Particularly Aggravating Mail |
Angela Brett |
| SPAM (10) | Students Propagate Annoying Messages |
Acronymous Anonymous |
| SPAM (11) | Students Propagate Anonymous Mailings |
Acronymous Anonymous |
| SPAM (12) | Students Propagate Assinine Mailings |
Acronymous Anonymous |
| SPAM (14) | Shoves Products At Me |
Angela Brett |
| SPAM (16) | Scams, Phishing And Maliciousness |
Bruce Siegel |
| SPAM (17) | Short Pointless Annoying Message |
Lingwo |
| SPAM (18) | Stupid People Advertising Merchandise |
Rebecca G. Listening to a news report on spammers and Canada's Privacy Act |
| SPAM (19) | Special Purpose Army Mailer |
The AKO mail team |
| SPAMMED | Some Putzhead Apparently Multiply Messaged Eventless Discussion. |
Jeff Anonymous, after someone posted a URL multiple times on the Apronyms Forums. Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| SSH | Superb System Handler |
Jeff Anonymous (SSH usually stands for Secure Shell) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| SUBSCRIBE | Sign Up By Sending Command, Receipt Is By Email |
Sean Lamb (who has been on more listservs than he can remember) |
| TELNET (3) | To Email, Learn Numbered, Esoteric Tetrads |
Angela Brett - I occasionally check my email using a telnet client, and many of the necessary POP commands have four letters and a message number. |
| TELNET (2) | The Easy Lane - Not Even Tricky |
Jeff Anonymous (Reflecting on the lack in Telnet of the encryption found in SSH) |
| TCP/IP | To Connect Properly, Install Properly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (TCP/IP usually stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| USENET | Users Sometimes Even Nasally Expel Tea |
Jeff Anonymous, answering a failed search, and referring to such newsgroup acronyms as "c|n>s" (coffee through nose to screen) |
| WEB | Wait Endlessly, Browse |
Edwin Hermann |
| WEB (2) | World Exchange Base |
Mick Bridgstock |
| WEB IMAGES | With Every Browser In Mind, 'Alt's Give Essential Synopsis. |
Angela Brett (the 'alt' attribute of an image in HTML specifies the text which shows if the image is not loaded. It's usually good to fill something in so that people using text-only browsers or slow modems know what the picture is of, especially if it's a picture of text which they need to see to make sense of the page.) |
| WEBTV | Was Enlisted By Trainee, Variant |
Jan Morgan -- not a computer but can get SOME internet functions. A beginner's choice. |
| WIKIPEDIA | What I Know Is Perfect, Encyclopedia's Definition Is Augmented. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady I really like the idea of Wikipedia, particularly the notion that people can add extra detail to an entry in an area they know a lot about. |
| WIKIPEDIA (2) | Which Idiot Keeps Inserting Patently Erroneous Details Into Archive? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, mindful that the strength of WIKIPEDIA is also a weakness. |
| WIKIPEDIA (3) | Well It's Knowlege Is Perfect, Except Don't Invest Assurance |
Sean Lamb |
| WORLD WIDE WEB | Well Organised Reticulation Linked Directly With Immense, Disjointed Electronic World - Engage Browser! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| YAHOO | Yak At Hearts Opponents Online |
Angela Brett (Hearts is one of the games available at http://games.yahoo.com, you can converse or 'yak' with other players while playing.) Computers:Games |
| ZOPE | Zero Online Publishing Equivalents |
Sean Lamb (Zope is a web page programming environment) |