| Acronym | Description
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| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
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| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port
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| AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format
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| AIX | Advanced Interactive Executive
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| ANSI | American National Standards Institute
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| API | Application Program Interface
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| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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| ASP | Active Server Page or Application Service Provider
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| ATA | Advanced Technology Attachment
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| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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| BASIC | Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
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| BIOS | Basic Input/Output System
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| BMP | Bitmap
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| BTS | Bug Tracking System
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| CAD | Computer-Aided Design
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| CCD | Charged Coupled Device
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| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access
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| CDROM | Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
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| CDRW | Compact Disc Re-Writable
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| CDR | Compact Disc Recordable
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| CD | Compact Disc
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| CGI | Common Gateway Interface
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| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computing
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| CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
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| CMYK | Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
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| CPA | Cost Per Action
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| CPC | Cost Per Click
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| CPL | Cost Per Lead
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| CPM | Cost Per 1,000 Impressions
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| CPU | Central Processing Unit
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| CRM | Customer Relationship Management
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| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube
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| CRUD | Create, Read, Update, and Delete
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| CSS | Cascading Style Sheet
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| CTP | Composite Theoretical Performance
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| CTR | Click-Through Rate
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| DBMS | Database Management System
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| DDR2 | Double Data Rate 2
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| DDR | Double Data Rate
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| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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| DIMM | Dual In-Line Memory Module
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| DLL | Dynamic Link Library
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| DMA | Direct Memory Access
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| DNS | Domain Name System
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| DRM | Digital Rights Management
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| DSLAM | Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
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| DSL | Domain-Specific Language
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| DTD | Document Type Definition
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| DVDRAM | Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory
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| DVDRW | Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
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| DVDRW | Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable
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| DVDR | Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
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| DVDR | Digital Versatile Disc Recordable
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| DVD | Digital Versatile Disc
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| DVI | Digital Video Interface
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| DVR | Digital Video Recorder
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| DV | Digital Video
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| EPS | Encapsulated Post Script?
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| EUP | Enterprise Unified Process
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| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions
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| FPU | Floating Point Unit
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| FSB | Frontside Bus
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| FTP | File Transfer Protocol
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| FiOS | Fiber Optic Service
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| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format
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| GIGO | Garbage In, Garbage Out
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| GIS | Geographic Information Systems
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| GPS | Global Positioning System
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| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit
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| GUI | Graphical User Interface
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| HDTV | High Definition Televsion
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| HDV | High-Definition Video
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| HFS | Hierarchical File System
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| HTML | Hyper-Text Markup Language
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| HTTP | Hyper Text? Transfer Protocol
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| ICF | Internet Connection Firewall
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| ICS | Internet Connection Sharing
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| IDE | Integrated Device Electronics
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| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol
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| IM | Instant Message
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| IO | Input/Output
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| IPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange
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| IP | Internet Protocol
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| IRC | Internet Relay Chat
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| IRQ | Interrupt Request
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| ISA | Industry Standard Architecture
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| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network
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| ISO | International Organization for Standardization
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| ISP | Internet Service Provider
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| IT | Information Technology
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| IVR | Interactive Voice Response
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| InterNIC | Internet Network Information Center
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| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group
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| JSP | Java Server Page
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| Kbps | Kilobits Per Second
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| LAN | Local Area Network
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| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display
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| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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| LPI | Lines Per Inch
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| MAC | Address Media Access Control Address
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| MCA | Micro Channel Architecture
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| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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| MIPS | Million Instructions Per Second
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| MP3 | MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
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| MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group
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| Mbps | Megabits Per Second
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| NAT | Network Address Translation
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| NIC | Network Interface Card
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| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol
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| NOC | Network Operations Center
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| NTFS | New Technology File System
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| NetBIOS | Network Basic Input/Output System
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| OCR | Optical Character Recognition
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| ODBC | Open Database Connectivity
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| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer
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| OLAP | Online Analytical Processing
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| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding
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| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First
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| P2P | Peer To Peer
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| PCB | Printed Circuit Board
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| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect
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| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
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| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant
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| PDF | Portable Document Format
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| PHP | Hypertext Preprocessor
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| PIM | Personal Information Manager
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| PNG | Portable Network Graphic
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| POD | Plain Old Document (Perl)
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| POP3 | Post Office Protocol
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| PPC | Pay Per Click
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| PPGA | Plastic Pin Grid Array
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| PPP | Point to Point Protocol
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| PRAM | Parameter Random Access Memory
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| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks
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| RAM | Random Access Memory
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| RDF | Resource Description Framework
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| RDRAM | Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
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| REST | Representational State Transfer
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| RGB | Red Green Blue
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| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computing
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| ROM | Read-Only Memory
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| RPC | Remote Procedure Call
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| RSS | RDF Site Summary
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| RTF | Rich Text Fomat
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| RUP | Rational Unified Process
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| SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
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| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface
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| SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
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| SDSL | Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
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| SD | Secure Digital
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| SEO | Search Engine Optimization
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| SIMM | Single In-Line Memory Module
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| SMART | Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology
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| SMS | Short Message Service
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| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol
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| SQL | Structured Query Language
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| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer
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| TCPIP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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| TFT | Thin-Film Transistor
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| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format
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| TTL | Time To Live
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| TWAIN | Toolkit Without An Informative Name
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| UDP | User Datagram Protocol
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| UML | Unified Modeling Language
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| UNC | Universal Naming Convention
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| URI | Universal Resource Identifier
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| URL | Uniform Resource Locator
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| USB | Universal Serial Bus
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| VCI | Virtual Channel Identifier
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| VCS | Version Control System
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| VFAT | Virtual File Allocation Table
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| VGA | Video Graphics Array
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| VLB | VESA Local Bus
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| VPI | Virtual Path Identifier
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| VPN | Virtual Private Network
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| VRAM | Video Random Access Memory
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| VRML | Virtual Reality Modeling Language
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| VoIP | Voice Over Internet Protocol
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| WAIS | Wide Area Information Server
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| WAN | Wide Area Network
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| WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy
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| WPA | Wi-Fi Protected Access
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| WWW | World Wide Web
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| Wi Fi? | Wireless Fidelity
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| XHTML | Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
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| XML | Extensible Markup Language
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| Y2K | Year 2000
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| ZIF | Zero Insertion Force
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| sRGB | Standard Red Green Blue
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