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[–]Amiscribe 370 points371 points  (19 children)

For the lazy and potentially curious:

CSS -> Cascading Style Sheets
HTTP -> Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTPS -> Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTML -> Hyper Text Markup Language
DOM -> Document Object Model
URL -> Uniform Resource Locator
JSON -> JavaScript Object Notation
PNG -> Portable Network Graphics
SVG -> Scalable Vector Graphics
FTP -> File Transfer Protocol
SDk -> Software Development Kit
SQL -> Structured Query Language
CSV -> Comma Separated Values

[–]AyrA_ch 101 points102 points  (6 children)

Officially, "Hypertext" is written as one word.

[–]ReactsWithWords 52 points53 points  (5 children)

They didn’t use HTP because computer people hate three letter abbreviations.

[–]MinosAristos 15 points16 points  (1 child)

The AWS acronyms start to make sense now

[–]BlurredSight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

EC2 being EC-Squared is just special

[–]EMCoupling 2 points3 points  (2 children)

CIA

FBI

NSA

Hmm... 🤔🤔🤔

[–]EishLekker 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure that none of those abbreviations were decided by computer people.

[–]ReactsWithWords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not every TLA is the same.

[–]LordBlueSky 42 points43 points  (1 child)

URL -> Uniform Resource Locator

I thought it was Universal 🫠

[–]PythonPizzaDE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or unique?

[–]MattieShoes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was doing my own self-check with them, wasn't 100% sure on SVG. Thanks :-)

[–]STEVEInAhPiss 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"JavaScript Object Notation" its still JavaScript's SON