Information Technology Acronyms

July 17, 2018

The computer industry seems to have a disproportionate number of acronyms and to the lay person it must sound like we are talking a foreign language.

To help we have listed some of the common ones below:

AD Administrative Domain
AMOLED Active-Matrix Organis Light-Emitting Diode
API Application Programming Interface
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DoS Denial of Service
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
GUI Graphical User Interface
LAN Local Area Network
NAS Network-Attached Storage
OS Operating System
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCIe PCI Express
PoE Power over Ethernet
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPPoE PPP over Ethernet
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
SATA Serial ATA
SSD Solid State Drive
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network

If you would like further punishment, follow this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computing_and_IT_abbreviations

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