@Decronym

Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz · edit-2 8 months ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
IP	Internet Protocol
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz · edit-2 1 year ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS	HTTP over SSL
IP	Internet Protocol
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz · edit-2 6 months ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
ESXi	VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
IP	Internet Protocol
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NVR	Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
PiHole	Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex	Brand of media server package
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
Unifi	Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz · edit-2 1 year ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
Plex	Brand of media server package
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
SSO	Single Sign-On
TLS	Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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