16 Acronyms that geeks speak but don’t know the meaning
By Jawad Masood | September 16th, 2009Among email etiquettes is that you should not use acronyms because not every person knows the meaning of these acronyms. Imagine you’re a geek among your friends and they ask you what the hell is DMOZ, or what does MP3 stands for! Here are few acronyms that most geeks use in their daily life but don’t know the meaning. Honestly tell me how many meanings you knew out of these. 😛
| 1. 3G | Third-generation |
| 2. ATM | Asychronous Transfer Mode |
| 3. AJAX | Asynchronous JavaScript and XML |
| 4. Blog | Short for Web Log |
| 5. DIVX | Digital Video Express |
| 6. DMOZ | Directory Mozilla |
| 7. DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
| 8. DVD | Digital Versatile Disc |
| 9. JPEG | Joint Photographics Expert Group |
| 10. KDE | K Desktop Environment |
| 11. MP3 | MPEG Layer 3 |
| 12. MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group |
| 13. SQL | Structure Query Language |
| 14. URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| 15. Wi-Fi | Wireless Fidelity |
| 16. Y2K | Year 2000 |
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