Internet Acronym's
 

I was looking up the history of a few internet acronyms that I commonly see and it's amazing how many I didn't know.

How many do you know off hand without looking them up?

I knew very few of these without looking them up...

.mpeg
.mp3
.gif
.jpg
.avi
.wav
.wma
RAID
RAM
ROM
RTF

tons more that I can't think of

I'll actually try it out without cheating...

.mpeg - Motion Picture *** Group (Just a Guess)
.mp3 - MPEG Layer 3
.gif - G
.jpg - Johannes Picture Group (Just a Guess)
.avi - Audio/Video Interlace (Just a Guess)
.wav - WAVE file
.wma - Windows Media Application
RAID -
RAM - Random Access Memory
ROM - Read Only Memory
RTF - Rich Text Font

Oh well :)

you knew 90% more than me

interesting thread

here are few more
XML PHP CGI SSH FTP HTTP SMTP HTML CSS PDF BMP AJAX

Interesting indeed!