Technische Abkürzungen
| AA | Anti-Aliasing |
| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
| ACL | Access Control List |
| ACPI | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
| AD | Active Directory |
| ADC | Apple Display Connector (Variante von DVI) |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, Variante von DSL |
| AGA | Advanced Graphics Architecture (Amiga-Chipsatz) |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port |
| AGU | Address Generation Unit |
| ALU | Arithmetic Logic Unit (dt. Arithmetisch-logische Einheit, Teil einer CPU) |
| AP | Access Point |
| API | Application Programmers/Programming Interface |
| APIC | Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller |
| APM | Advanced Power Management |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange (dt. Amerikanische Standardkodierung für den Informationsaustausch) |
| ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ASP | Active Server Pages |
| ATA | Advanced Technology (AT) Attachment |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode; Asynchronous Time Multiplexing |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleaved |
| B2B | Business-to-Business |
| B2C | Business-to-Consumer |
| BASIC | Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (Programmiersprache, die Abkürzung ist eigentlich keine) |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| BCC | Blind Carbon Copy (dt. Blindkopie), Feld im Kopf einer E-Mail, das zusätzliche Adressaten enthält, die aber (anders als der/die Empfänger im To- und im CC-Feld) nicht den anderen Adressaten mitgeteilt werden. |
| BDC | Backup Domain Controller |
| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
| BSOD | Blue Screen of Death (nur Windows) |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design (Computergestütztes Design) |
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| CC | Carbon Copy (dt. Kohlepapierdurchschlag), Feld im Kopf einer E-Mail, das zusätzliche Adressaten enthält |
| CCD | Charge-coupled Device |
| CDE | Common Desktop Environment |
| CGA | Color Graphics Adapter |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
| CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
| CIFS | Common Internet File System |
| CIM | Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computing |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CLI | Command Line Interface |
| CMM | Capability Maturity Model |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (dt. Komplementärer Metall-Oxid-Halbleiter) |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit (dt. Computer Zentraleinheit) |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check, Verfahren zur Ermittlung von Übertragungsfehlern |
| CSMA/CA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
| CSS | Content Scrambling System |
| CUPS | Common Unix Printing System |
| CVS | Concurrent Versioning System |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| DCOM | Distributed COM |
| DCL | Data Control Language |
| DDE | Dynamic Data Exchange |
| DDL | Data Definition Language |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service |
| DDR | Double Data Rate |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHTML | Dynamic HTML, Kombination von HTML und Javascript |
| DIMM | Dual In-Line Memory Modules |
| DLL | Dynamic Link Library |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access (dt. Direkter Speicherzugriff), Methode zur Umgehung der CPU bei Speicherzugriffen von Peripheriegeräten aus |
| DMCA | Digital Millenium Copyright Act |
| DML | Data Manipulation Language |
| DMZ | DeMilitarized Zone |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| DRAM | Dynamic RAM |
| DRL | Data Retrieval Language |
| DRM | Digital Rights Management |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DTP | Desktop-Publishing |
| DVB | Digital Video Broadcasting |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disc |
| DVI | Digital Video Interface |
| ECMA | European Computer Manufacturers Association |
| EDGE | Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution |
| EGA | Enhanced Graphics Adapter |
| EIGRP | Enhanced IGRP |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Beans |
| EMV | ElektroMagnetische Verträglichkeit |
| EOF | End Of File |
| EOL | End Of Line |
| ESQL | Embedded SQL |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| FPU | Floating Point Unit (numerischer Coprozessor) |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GC | Garbage Collection/Collector |
| GCC | GNU Compiler Collection |
| GNU | GNU's Not UNIX! |
| GNOME | GNU Network Object Model Environment |
| GPL | GNU General Public License |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service |
| GRUB | GRand Unified Boot-loader |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile Communication |
| GTK | GIMP Toolkit |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| GUID | Globally Unique Identifier |
| HDLC | High level Data Link Control |
| HGC | Hercules Graphics Card |
| HPFS | High Performance File System |
| HSCSD | High Speed Circuit Switched Data |
| HT | HyperThreading |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTPC | Home Theater Personal Computer |
| HTTP | HyperText Transport Protocol |
| HTTPS | HyperText Transport Protocol + SSL |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IDE | Integrated Disk Electronic |
| IGRP | Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
| IIOP | Internet Inter-Orb Protocol |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IPC | InterProcess Communications |
| IPC | Instructions Per Cycle |
| IPP | Internet Printing Protocol |
| IPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| IrDA | Infrared Data Association |
| IRQ | Interrupt Request |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISA | Industry Standard Architecture |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | InformationsTechnologie |
| JDBC | Java DataBase Connectivity |
| JDK | Java Development Kit |
| JFS | Journaling File System |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| JSF | Java Server Faces |
| JSP | JavaServer Pages |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
| KDE | K Desktop Environment |
| KI | Künstliche Intelligenz (en. AI) |
| KVM | Keyboard Video Monitor |
| L2TP | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol |
| LAMP | Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP-Perl |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LDAP | Leightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LILO | LInux LOader |
| LISP | LISt Processor (dt. Listenverarbeiter) Programmiersprache |
| LLC | Logical Link Control |
| LUN | Logical Unit Number |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
| MBR | Master Boot Record |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MMS | Multimedia Messaging Service |
| MMU | Memory Management Unit |
| MMX | Multimedia Extension |
| MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group |
| MTA | Mail Transfer Agent |
| MTU | Maximum Transfer Unit |
| MUA | Mail User Agent |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NDS | Novell Directory Services |
| NGSC | Next Generation Secure Computing Base |
| NIC | Networked Information Center |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NNTP | Network News Transport Protocol |
| NTFS | New Technology File System |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
| ODBC | Open DataBase Connectivity - Eine universelle Datenbankschnittstelle |
| ODMG | Object Database Management Group |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OLAP | Online Analytical Processing |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding |
| OOP | Objektorientierte Programmierung |
| OODBMS | Object-Oriented DataBase Management System (Objektorientiertes Datenbanksystem) |
| OQL | Object Query Language (Abfragefrage für OODBMS) |
| ORDBMS | Object-Relational DataBase Management System (Objektrelationales Datenbanksystem) |
| OS | Operating System (Betriebssystem) |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First |
| OSS | Open Source Software (Software, deren Quelltext öffentlich zugänglich ist) |
| P2P | Peer to Peer |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDC | Primary Domain Controller |
| PHP | PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| POP3 | Post Office Protocol Version 3 |
| PPP | Point to Point Protocol |
| PPPoE | [[PPP] over Ethernet |
| PPTP | Point to Point Tunneling Protocol |
| PS | PostScript |
| QoS | Qualtity of Service |
| RAD | Rapid Application Development |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Inexpensive / Independent Disks |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RARP | Reverse ARP |
| RAS | Remote Access Service |
| RDBMS | Relational DataBase Management System (Relationales Datenbanksystem) |
| RFC | Request for Comments |
| RIMM | Rambus In-Line Memory Modul |
| RIP | Raster Image Process |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computing |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SATA | Serial ATA |
| SCAM | SCSI Configuration AutoMatically |
| SCSI | Small Computers System Interface |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SDSL | Symmetric/Single line Digital Subscriber Line / Variante von DSL |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SIMD | Single-Instruction Multiple-Data |
| SIMM | Single In-line Memory Module |
| SIP | Session Initiation Protocol |
| SIP | Sideway Information Passing |
| SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol |
| SMB | Server Message Block |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SML | Standard Meta Language |
| SMP | Symmetric Multi-Processing |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SQL | Structured Query Language, (dt. Strukturierte Abfragesprache) Datenbankabfragesprache |
| SRAM | Static RAM |
| SSH | Secure SHell |
| SSI | Server Side Includes |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| SVGA | Super Video Graphics Array |
| TCL | Tool Command Language (dt. Werkzeugsprache) Programmiersprache |
| TCPA | Trusted Computer Platform Architecture |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (Übertragungs steuerungs Protokoll/Internet Protokoll) |
| TFT | Thin Film Transistor |
| TFTP | Trivial FTP |
| TIMTOWTDI | There is more than one way to do it. Motto mancher Programmiersprachen (z. B. Perl), das die (hoffentliche) Vielfalt der Möglichkeiten der jeweiligen Programmiersprache ausdrücken soll |
| TPM | Trusted Platform Module |
| TTL | Time to live |
| UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UFS | UNIX File System |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| UMTS | Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| USV | Unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung |
| UTF | UCS Transformation Format |
| VB | Visual Basic |
| VBA | Visual Basic for Applications |
| VBS | Visual Basic Script |
| VDSL | Very High Data Rate DSL / Variante von DSL |
| VGA | Video Graphics Array |
| VLB | Vesa Local Bus |
| VoIP | Voice over IP |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAIS | Wide Area Information Servers |
| WAMP | Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP-Perl |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy |
| WINE | WINE Is Not an Emulator |
| WINS | Windows Internet Name Service |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network (Kabelloses Lokales Netzwerk) |
| WML | Wireless Markup Language |
| WOL | Wake on LAN |
| WSH | Windows Scripting Host |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get (sprich: wei-szi-wig) (dt. Was du siehst ist was du bekommst), Bezeichnung für graphische Editoren und Textverarbeitungsprogramme, bei denen das gedruckte Ergebnis genau so aussieht wie auf dem Bildschirm |
| WYSISLWYG | What You See Is Sort-of Like What You Get (sprich: wiesel-wig) (dt. Was Du siehst ist irgendwie so ähnlich wie das, was du bekommst), zynische Bezeichnung für WYSIWYG-Programme, die nicht halten, was sie versprechen |
| XGA | eXtended Graphics Array |
| XHTML | eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (HTML-Nachfolger) |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language, dt. erweiterbare "Beschreibungssprache" (wird so nicht verwendet) |
| XML-RPC | eXtensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Call (Protokoll für verteilte Anwendungen) |
| XSL | eXtensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSLT | XSL Transformations |
Oft werden auch Smileys verwendet.
| AFAICT | As Far As I Can Tell (Soweit ich sagen kann) |
| AFAIK | As Far As I Know (Soweit ich weiß) |
| AFAIR | As Far As I Remember (Soweit ich mich erinnern kann) |
| AFK | Away from Keyboard (Weg von der Tastatur) |
| AKA | Also Known As (Auch bekannt als) |
| ASAP | As Soon As Possible (So schnell wie möglich) |
| BION | Believe It Or Not (Glaube es oder auch nicht) |
| BRB | Be Right Back (Bin gleich wieder da) |
| BTW | By The Way (Im Übrigen sei bemerkt, dass) |
| CU | See You (Tschüß) |
| CU2 | See You, Too (auch Tschüß) |
| CYA | See Ya (See You) (auch Tschüß) |
| CUL8R | See You Later (Tschüß bis später) |
| DTRT | Do The Right Thing (Tu das Richtige) |
| EOD | End Of Discussion (Ende der Diskussion) |
| EOT | End Of Thread (Ende des Diskussionsfadens), auch End of Text (Ende des Textes) |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions (Häufig gestellte Fragen) |
| FOAD | Fuck Off And Die (Verschwinde) |
| FOAF | Friend Of A Friend (Der Bekannte eines Bekannten; Hörensagen) |
| FYI | For Your Information (Zur Information) |
| GA | Go Ahead (Weitergehen) |
| GOK | God Only Knows (Weiß Gott) |
| GR&D | Grinning, Running And Ducking (Grinsen, weglaufen und ducken) |
| HTH | Hope This Helps (Hoffe das hilft) |
| IANAL | I Am Not A Lawyer (Ich bin kein Anwalt) |
| IIRC | If I Remember Correctly (Wenn ich mich richtig erinnere) |
| IMHO | In My (Humble) Opinion (Meiner (unmaßgeblichen) Meinung nach) |
| IMNSHO | In My (Not So Humble) Opinion (Meiner (nicht ganz so) bescheidenen Meinung nach |
| IMO | In My Opinion (Meiner Meinung nach) |
| IRL | In Real Life (Im wirklichen Leben) |
| LMAO | Laughing My Ass Off (Lacht sich den Arsch ab) |
| LOL | Laughing Out Loud (dt. er/sie lacht laut) |
| MORF | Man Or Female? (Mann oder Frau?) |
| N8 | Night (Gute Nacht!) |
| NRN | No Reply Necessary (keine Antwort notwendig) |
| OHDH | Old Habits Die Hard (Was Hänschen nicht lernt...) |
| OIC | Oh, I See (Oh, ich verstehe) |
| OT | Off Topic (Gehört nicht zum Thema) |
| OTOH | On The Other Hand (Andererseits) |
| PTMM | Please Tell Me More (Bitte erzähl mir mehr darüber) |
| RE | Returned ('Zurück'/wird in Chats genutzt, um sich zurück zu melden) |
| RE | Reply (im E-Mailverkehr als Antwort) |
| ROFL | Rolling On the Floor, Laughing (dt. ich roll' mich vor Lachen auf dem Boden) |
| ROTFL | Rolling On The Floor, Laughing (dt. ich roll' mich vor Lachen auf dem Boden) |
| ROTFLUTS | Rolling On The Floor, Laughing and unable to speak (dt. ich roll' mich vor Lachen auf dem Boden und kann nichts mehr sagen) |
| RSN | Real Soon Now (Schon sehr bald) |
| RTFM | Read The Fucking/Fine Manual (Lies das scheiss/nette Handbuch) |
| SCNR | Sorry Could Not Resist (Entschuldigung, aber ich konnte nicht widerstehen) |
| SSZ | Schreib schnell zurück |
| STFU | Shut The Fuck Up (vulg., Sei endlich ruhig; Halt die Klappe) |
| STFW | Search The Fucking Web (vulg., Suche im Internet) |
| TBD | To Be Done (Muss noch erledigt werden) |
| THX | Thanks (Danke) |
| TIA | Thanks In Advance (Danke im voraus) |
| TINAR | This Is Not A Recommendation (Dies ist keine Empfehlung) |
| TNX | Thanks (Danke) |
| TOFU | Text Oben, Fullquote Unten (Schlechter Stil beim Zitieren in Usenet-Postings) |
| TY | Thank You (Danke Dir) |
| WB | Welcome Back (Willkommen zurück. Häufige Antwort auf RE) |
| WBASAP | Write back as soon as possible (Schreib so schnell du kannst zurück) |
| WTH | What The Hell (Was zum Geier...) |
| WTF | What The Fuck (Verdammt!) |
| YMMV | Your Mileage May Vary (Keine allgemeingültige Feststellung oder Empfehlung) |
Siehe auch: Abkürzungen