Internet Terms 101

Okay for those of you who always use the internet and come across acronyms which you think you have some idea of but not very sure, why not go to Webopedia.com or Whatis.com to find out. Anyway, here are a few common terms which i think the average internet user should know.

• ASP – Active Server Pages
• B2B – Business to Business
• B2C – Business to Consumer
• CRM – Customer Relationship Management
• CMS – Content Managment System
• CSS – Cascading Style Sheets
• DHTML – Dynamic HTML
• DNS – Domain Name Server
• FTP – File Transfer Protocol
• GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
• GM – Greymatter
• HTML – Hypertext Markup Language
• HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol
• ICQ – I-Seek-You
• IP – Internet Protocol
• IRC – Internet Relay Chat
• JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
• MT – MovableType
• NOS – Network Operating System
• OS – Operating System
• PDF – Portable Document Format
• PEARL – My Wife
• PERL – Practical Extraction and Report Language
• PGP – Pretty Good Privacy
• PHP – Hypertext Preprocessor
• PING – Packet Internet Groper
• POP – Post Office Protocol
• SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SQL – Structured Query Language
• SSL – Secure Sockets Layer
• TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol/IP
• URL – Uniform Resource Locator
• URI – Uniform Resource Identifier
• VPN – Virtual Private Network
• W3C – World Wide Web Consortium
• WWW – World Wide Web
• XML – Extensible Markup Language
• XHTML – Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

Darn! i did not expect a simple list to become so long.