ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API Application Program Interface
APU Accelerated Processing Unit
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP Active Server Page or Application Service Provider
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AVR Audio/Video Receiver

BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BMP Bitmap
BSOD Blue Screen of Death

Cc Carbon Copy
CD Compact Disc
CD-R Compact Disc Recordable
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
CD-RW Compact Disc Re-Writable
CDFS Compact Disc File System
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CPU Central Processing Unit
CSS Cascading Style Sheet

DAC Digital-to-Analog Converter
DCIM Digital Camera IMages
DDL Data Definition Language
DDR Double Data Rate
DDR2 Double Data Rate 2
DDR3 Double Data Rate Type 3
DDR4 Double Data Rate 4
DFS Distributed File System
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DNS Domain Name System
DOS Disk Operating System
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRM Digital Rights Management
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DTD Document Type Definition
DV Digital Video
DVD Digital Versatile Disc
DVD+R Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
DVD+RW Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
DVD-R Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
DVD-RAM Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory
DVD-RW Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
DVI Digital Video Interface
DVR Digital Video Recorder

eSATA External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FIFO First In, First Out
FILO First In, Last Out
FPGA Field-Programmable Gate Array
FPS Frames Per Second
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FTP File Transfer Protocol

Gbps Gigabits Per Second
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GPS Global Positioning System
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUID Globally Unique Identifier

HAN Home Area Network
HD High Definition
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HDR High Dynamic Range
HDTV High Definition Televsion
HDV High-Definition Video
HFS Hierarchical File System
HTML Hyper-Text Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS HyperText Transport Protocol Secure

I/O Input/Output
ICANN Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers
ICCID Integrated Circuit Card Identifier
ICF Internet Connection Firewall
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICS Internet Connection Sharing
IGP Integrated Graphics Processor
IIS Internet Information Services
IM Instant Message
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity
InterNIC Internet Network Information Center
IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second
IP Internet Protocol
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISP Internet Service Provider
IT Information Technology
ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

Kbps Kilobits Per Second

LAN Local Area Network
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LED Light-Emitting Diode
LFN Long Filename
LIFO Last In, First Out
LTE Long Term Evolution

MAC Address Media Access Control Address
Mbps Megabits Per Second
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIPS Million Instructions Per Second
MIS Management Information System
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
MP3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group

NAT Network Address Translation
NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System
NFC Near Field Communication
NOC Network Operations Center
NOS Network Operating System
NSP Network Service Provider
NTFS New Technology File System
NTP Network Time Protocol

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OLAP Online Analytical Processing
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OLED Organic Light Emitting Diode
OSD On Screen Display
OS Operating System

P2P Peer To Peer
PC Personal Computer
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDF Portable Document Format
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PNG Portable Network Graphic
POP3 Post Office Protocol
PRAM Parameter Random Access Memory
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory

RAM Random Access Memory
ROM Read-Only Memory
RSS RDF Site Summary

SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SD Secure Digital
SDK Software Development Kit
SDLC System Development Lifecycle
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDS Software-Defined Storage
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SEO Search Engine Optimization
SIM Card Subscriber Identification Module Card
SLA Software License or Service Level Agreement
SLI Scalable Link Interface
SMART Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology
SMS Short Message Service
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SQL Structured Query Language
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SRE Site Reliability Engineering
sRGB Standard Red Green Blue
SSD Solid State Drive
SSID Service Set Identifier
SSL Secure Sockets Layer

TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
UML Unified Modeling Language
UPnP Universal Plug and Play
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTF Unicode Transformation Format
UUID Universally Unique Identifier

VDSL Very High Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Line
VFAT Virtual File Allocation Table
VGA Video Graphics Array
VIP Virtual IP Address
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server
VRAM Video Random Access Memory
VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language

W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WAN Wide Area Network
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
WINS Windows Internet Name Service
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WPA2 Wi-Fi Protected Access 2
WWW World Wide Web
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

XAML Extensible Application Markup Language
XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML Extensible Markup Language
XMP Extensible Metadata Platform
XSLT Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformation

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