Information Technology is now a vital part of our life and we can’t live without it. It’s now a part of our life which is embedded in our environment. We use mobiles, TVs, laptops and other gadgets and use the Internet, so every one of us should be aware of the basic IT terms and abbreviations.
We have curated a few day-to-day uses of IT abbreviations for the betterment of yourself:
- ACID – Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
- ACK – Acknowledgement
- ACL – Access Control List
- ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (a variant of DSL)
- AES – Advanced Encryption Standard
- ANSI – American National Standards Institute
- API – Application Programming Interface Software
- ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
- ARPA – Advanced Research Projects Agency (see also DARPA)
- ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
- ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- B2B – Business-to–Business
- B2C – Business-to–Consumer
- BASIC – Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
- BIOS – Basic Input Output
- CAD – Computer-Aided Design
- CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
- COBOL – Common Business-Oriented Language
- DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- DB – Database
- DBA – Database Administrator
- DBMS – Database Management System
- DCL – Data Control Language
- DDL – Data Definition Language
- DHTML – Dynamic HTML
- DL – Download
- DLL – Dynamic Link Library
- DML – Data Manipulation Language
- DNS – Domain Name System
- DSL – Digital Subscriber Line
- DTP – Desktop Publishing
- Email – Electronic Mail
- EXE – EXEcutable
- FTP – File Transfer Protocol
- GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
- GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program
- GIS – Geographic Information System
- GPRS – General Packet Radio Service
- GUI – Graphical User Interface
- HTML – Hypertext Markup Language
- HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- HTTPS – Hypertext Transport Protocol Secured
- ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- ICT – Information and Communication Technology
- IDE – Integrated Development Environment
- IE – Internet Explorer
- IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IIS – Internet Information Services
- IMAP – Internet Message Access Protocol
- I/O – Input/Output
- IoT – Internet of Things
- IPR – Intellectual Property Rights
- IP – Internet Protocol
- IPsec – Internet Protocol security
- IRC – Internet Relay Chat
- IS – Information Systems
- ISDN – Integrated Services Digital Network
- ISO – International Organization for Standardization
- ISP – Internet Service Provider
- KB – Knowledge Base
- MAC – Media Access Control
- MDI – Multiple Document Interface
- MIS – Management Information Systems
- ML – Machine Learning
- MX – Mail exchange
- OLAP – Online Analytical Processing
- OLTP – Online Transaction Processing
- OO – Object-Oriented
- OOP – Object-Oriented Programming
- OS – Operating System
- OSS – Open Source Software
- OSI – Open Systems Interconnection
- OSPF – Open Shortest Path First
- P2P – Peer-To–Peer
- PARC – Palo Alto Research Center
- POP3 – Post Office Protocol v3
- POST – Power-On Self Test
- PPP – Point-to-Point Protocol
- RDBMS – Relational Database Management System
- RFID – Radio Frequency Identification
- RGB – Red, Green, Blue
- RIP – Routing Information Protocol
- SDI – Single Document Interface
- SFTP – Secure FTP
- SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SSD – Solid-state Drive
- SQL – Structured Query Language
- SSL – Secure Socket Layer
- TCP – Transmission Control Protocol
- TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- TLD – Top-Level Domain
- URI – Uniform Resource Identifier
- URL – Uniform Resource Locator
- URN – Uniform Resource Name
- VB – Visual Basic
- VLAN – Virtual Local Area Network
- VoIP – Voice over IP
- VPN – Virtual Private Network
- VSAT – Very Small Aperture Terminal
- WAIS – Wide Area Information Server
- WAN – Wide Area Network
- WAP – Wireless Access Point
- WAP – Wireless Application Protocol
- WiMAX – Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
- WLAN – Wireless Local Area Network
- 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