Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters | More Letters |
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DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
IP | Internet Protocol |
NAT | Network Address Translation |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
TLS | Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
XMPP | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging |
nginx | Popular HTTP server |
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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