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by simonc

Sun Jul 23 2000 at 11:29:31

Acronyms are what the engineers of NASA refer to as high bandwidth communication.

Communicating complex terms in acronyms saves time, and therefore bandwidth.

SNAFU	WTF	radar	abbreviation
code	CERN	HTML tags	VCR
S.H.I.E.L.D.	backronym	ADSL	HTML attributes
netcronym	SCTP	UFO	IRC
GUE	The Dead Parrot Sketch	GNU	abbr
Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary	ARP	recursive acronym

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