| ACRONYMS | Definition | |
|---|---|---|
| AFIPS | American Federation of Information Processing Societies | |
| ANS | Advanced Networks and Services | |
| ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency | |
| ARPANET | Advanced Resaerch Projects Agency Network | |
| AT&T | American Telephone and Telegraph Company | |
| AUP | Acceptable Use Policy | |
| AVAIL | Availablity of network access | |
| AWK | Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (Unix Utility) | |
| BASIC | Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code | |
| BBN | Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. | |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System | |
| Berknet | Berkeley Network | |
| BESYS | Bell Operating System | |
| BIS | Business Information Systems (At Bell Labs) | |
| BITnet | Because It’s Time Network | |
| BLN | Bell Labs Network | |
| BRL | Ballistics Research Laboratory | |
| BSD | Berkeley Systems Distribution of Unix | |
| BTL | Bell Telephone Laboratories | |
| CBI | Charles Babbage Institute | |
| CCC | Computer Chess Competition | |
| CCN | College Campus Net (UCLA) | |
| CCR | Command and Control Research | |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit | |
| CS | Computer Science | |
| CSnet | Computer Science Network (later Computer and Science Network) | |
| CTSS | Compatible Time-Sharing System | |
| DEC | Digital Equipment Corporation | |
| DEL | Decode-Encode Language | |
| DoD | United States Department of Defense | |
| Electronic Mail | ||
| EUUG | European Unix Users Group | |
| FA | From ARPANET | |
| FCC | Federal Communications Commission | |
| FJCC | Fall Joint Computer Conference (AFIPS) | |
| FIDOnet | FIDO Bulletin Board System Network | |
| Free-Net | Free access community Network (now a registered trademark | |
| of the National Public Telecommunications Network) | ||
| ftp | file transfer protocol | |
| GECOS | General Electric Comprehensive Operating System (later GCOS) | |
| grep | global/regular expression/print (Unix command) | |
| honeydanber | Honeyman, David A. Nowitz, Brian E. Redman’s Version of UUCP | |
| IAB | Internet Activities Board | |
| IBM | International Business Machines Corporation | |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force | |
| IMP | Interface Message Processor | |
| INWG | International Network Working Group | |
| IPTO | Information Processing Techniques Office | |
| Internet | Internetwork of Networks | |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat | |
| JCL | Job Control Language | |
| K-12 Net | Kindergarten to 12th grade Network | |
| listserv | Electronic mailing list server | |
| MAC | Man And Computer, Multi-Access Computer | |
| MC | Mathematisch Centrum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) | |
| MERIT | Michigan Education Research Instruction Triade | |
| MILNET | Military Network | |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| MOO | MUD, Object Oriented | |
| MUD | Multi-User Dungeon | |
| MULTICS | MULtiplexed Information and Computing Service | |
| MUSH | Multi-User Shared Hallucinations | |
| NAC | Network Analysis Corporation | |
| NCP | Network Control Program or Network Control Protocol | |
| Netiquette | Network users etiquette | |
| Netnews | Network news | |
| Netizen | Network Citizen, net.citizen | |
| NII | National Information Infrastructure | |
| NIL | Network Interchange Language | |
| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol | |
| NREN | National Education and Research Network | |
| NSF | National Science Foundation | |
| NSFnet | National Science Foundation Network | |
| NTIA | National Telecommunications Information Administration | |
| NWG | Network Working Group | |
| NYPSC | New York Public Service Commission | |
| PWB | Programmer’s Workbench | |
| REDEFUS | Redefine Universal Access | |
| RFC | Request For Comment | |
| RFP | Request For Proposal | |
| RFQ | Request For Quotation | |
| RJE | Remote Job Entry | |
| RLE | Research Laboratory for Electronics | |
| rn | read news | |
| SDC | System Development Corporation | |
| SJCC | Spring Joint Computer Conference (AFIPS) | |
| SRI | Stanford Research Institute | |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol | |
| TIP | Terminal IMP | |
| UCB | University of California at Berkeley | |
| UCLA | University of California at Los Angeles | |
| UCSD | University of California at San Diego | |
| UCSB | University of California at Santa Barbara | |
| UNC | University of North Carolina | |
| UNSW | University of New South Wales | |
| Usenet | Users network | |
| USG | Unix Support Group | |
| UUCP | Unix to Unix CoPy | |
| V6 | Version 6 (Unix) | |
| V7 | Version 7 (Unix) | |
| VMSnet | Virtual Memory System network | |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
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