Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.
[Thread #147 for this comm, first seen 26th Oct 2026, 23:00] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CA | (SSL) Certificate Authority |
| CGNAT | Carrier-Grade NAT |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol for email |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency |
| NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol for encrypted file transfer, over SSH |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
[Thread #144 for this comm, first seen 22nd Oct 2026, 07:10] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
[Thread #148 for this comm, first seen 27th Oct 2026, 16:10] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]