Web Acronyms for Dummies! or really anyone..

education,general — by Shannon on September 10, 2008

Do you know all of the web’s simple acronyms like www and url? What about the more complicated ones like xml or php? Everyone throws around these terms that are actually household names! But do people actually know what they stand for? My guess is no.. I’ll admit, I had to look some these up. But I thought it would be fun to see what you guys know and maybe you’ll learn a few new ones!

WWW – world wide web (okay we’re starting out easy!)
URL – uniform resource locator
HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTML – Hypertext Markup Language
XHTML – eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML – eXtensible Markup Language
FTP – file transfer protocol
PHP – Hypertext Preprocessor
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get (This one still gets me, it’s so simple!)
RSS – Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary
ISP – Internet Service Provider
DOM – Document Object Model
CSS – Cascading Style Sheets
CMS – Content Management System
CGI – Common Gateway Interface
DNS – Domain Name Server
SEO – Search Engine Optimization

What else can you add to the list?


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8 Comments »

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    September 11, 2008 @ 4:57 pm

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    Joe
    September 11, 2008 @ 8:04 pm

    How about

    URI – Uniform Resource Identifier
    GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
    JPEG – Joint Photographic Expert Group
    PNG – Portable Network Graphics

    I really wonder who came up with some of those :-)

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    Bramme
    September 11, 2008 @ 11:38 pm

    PIXEL = picture element

    Not official, but common:
    JFGI = just f*’ing google it
    RTFM = read the f*’ing manual

    Are a few that popped in my mind.

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    Bramme
    September 17, 2008 @ 1:40 am

    Another one is XSS: Cross Site Scripting

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    shannon
    September 17, 2008 @ 8:38 am

    Nice! I haven’t heard of JFGI or RTFM but they are definitely fun.

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    chinaman
    September 17, 2008 @ 9:29 pm

    Hi
    I like your posts, It sets me thinking.

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    fluoxet
    September 29, 2008 @ 11:18 pm

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    search engine optimization for dummies
    October 2, 2008 @ 8:31 pm

    search engine optimization for dummies…

    The term is used colloquially for any kind of Linkback.A Trackback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request…

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