Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters | More Letters |
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AP | WiFi Access Point |
CA | (SSL) Certificate Authority |
DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
IP | Internet Protocol |
NAT | Network Address Translation |
PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
SBC | Single-Board Computer |
SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
TLS | Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
nginx | Popular HTTP server |
15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 16 acronyms.
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