60 Tech Acronyms You Should Know

This is actually fun and confusing. It hits me that people can be so creative in coming up with words that suit a particular context.

While i was trying to kill boredom by scanning through the internet, i came across this post on Nairaland forum and i thought it would be nice to tell my readers all about it.

However, I'm not completely sure about the meanings authenticity. Some words appear funny like Google and Dell, while others like  Computer seems pretty cool. 

Let me assume it's all for fun though.

Here are  60 Technology Acronyms and their meanings

1.) *GOOGLE* - Global Organization Of Oriented Group Language Of Earth.

2.) *YAHOO* - Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

3.) *WINDOW* - Wide Interactive Network Development for Office work Solution.

4.) *COMPUTER* - Common Oriented Machine Particularly United and used under Technical and Educational Research.

5.) *VIRUS* - Vital Information Resources Under Siege.

6.) *UMTS* - Universal Mobile Telecommunicati ons System.

7.) *AMOLED* - Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode.

8.) *OLED* - Organic light-emitting diode.

9.) *IMEI* - International Mobile Equipment Identity.

10.) *ESN* - Electronic Serial Number.

11.) *UPS* - Uninterruptible power supply.

12. *HDMI* - High-Definition Multimedia Interface.

13.) *VPN* - Virtual private network.

14.) *APN* - Access Point Name.

15.) *SIM* - Subscriber Identity Module.

16.) *LED* - Light emitting diode.

17.) *DLNA* - Digital Living Network Alliance.

18.) *RAM* - Random access memory.

19.) *ROM* - Read only memory.

20.) *VGA* - Video Graphics Array.

21.) *QVGA* - Quarter Video Graphics Array.

22.) *WVGA* - Wide video graphics array.

23.) *WXGA* - Widescreen Extended Graphics Array.

24.) *USB* - Universal serial Bus.

25.) *WLAN* - Wireless Local Area Network.

26.) *PPI* - Pixels Per Inch.

27.) *LCD* - Liquid Crystal Display.

28.) *HSDPA* - High speed down-link packet access.

29.) *HSUPA* - High-Speed Uplink Packet Access.

30.) *HSPA* - High Speed Packet Access.

31.) *GPRS* - General Packet Radio Service.

32.) *EDGE* - Enhanced Data Rates for Globa Evolution.

33.) *NFC* - Near field communication.

34.) *OTG* - On-the-go.

35.) *S-LCD* - Super Liquid Crystal Display.

36.) *O.S* - Operating system.

37.) *SNS* - Social network service.

38.) *H.S* - HOTSPOT.

39.) *P.O.I* - Point of interest.

40.) *GPS* - Global Positioning System.

41.) *DVD* - Digital Video Disk.

42.) *DTP* - Desk top publishing.

43.) *DNSE* - Digital natural sound engine.

44.) *OVI* - Ohio Video Intranet.

45.) *CDMA* - Code Division Multiple Access.

46.) *WCDMA* - Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access.

47.) *GSM* - Global System for Mobile Communications.

48.) *WI-FI* - Wireless Fidelity.

49.) *DIVX* - Digital internet video access.

50.) *APK* - Authenticated public key.

51.) *J2ME* - Java 2 micro edition.

52.) *SIS* - Installation source.

53.) *DELL* - Digital electronic link library.

54.) *ACER* - Acquisition Collaboration Experimentation Reflection.

55.) *RSS* - Really simple syndication.

56.) *TFT* - Thin film transistor.

57.) *AMR*- Adaptive Multi-Rate.

58.) *MPEG* - moving pictures experts group.

59.) *IVRS* - Interactive Voice Response System.

60.) *HP* - Hewlett Packard

And that's all for the countdown, thanks for reading along.

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