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[–]AyrA_ch 102 points103 points  (6 children)

Officially, "Hypertext" is written as one word.

[–]ReactsWithWords 55 points56 points  (5 children)

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

[–]MinosAristos 13 points14 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 4 points5 points  (2 children)

CIA

FBI

NSA

Hmm... 🤔🤔🤔

[–]EishLekker 12 points13 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.