• DecronymBEnglish
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    22 minutes ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    AP WiFi Access Point
    CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
    DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email
    IP Internet Protocol
    MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    SCP Secure Copy encrypted file transfer tool, authenticates and transfers over SSH
    SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging
    k8s Kubernetes container management package
    nginx Popular HTTP server

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