There are literally thousands of computer abbreviations and standards out there. Technology and computer industry likes to use acronym and abbreviations. Following are list of all common useful computer abbreviations and standards for most computer users.

A

Abbreviation Standards
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
APN Access Point Name
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
ATX Advanced Technology Extended
API Application Programming Interface
AVI Audio Video Interleaved

B

Abbreviation Standards
BIOS Basic Input Output System
Bcc Blind Carbon Copy
bps Bits Per Second

C

Abbreviation Standards
CPU Central Processing Unit
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
Cc Carbon Copy
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
CD Compact Disc
CD-R Compact Disc Recordable
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
CD-RW Compact Disc Re-Writable
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CGI Common Gateway Interface

D

Abbreviation Standards
DDR Double Data Rate
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DNS Domain Name System
DOS Disk Operating System
DVD Digital Video Disk
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DRAM Dynamic Ram (Random Access Memory)
DVD-R Digital Video Disk-Recordable
DVD-ROM Digital Video Disk-Read Only Memory
DVD-RW Digital Video Disk-Rewritable

E

Abbreviation Standards
DDR Double Data Rate
EDGE Enhanced Data Rate for Global Evolution
E-mail Electronic mail
ERD Entity-Relationship Diagram
EXT EXEcutable
EFI Extensible Firmware Interface
EFT Electronic Funds Transfer
EFS Encrypting File System
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EGL Enterprise Generation Language
EJB Enterprise JavaBeans

F

Abbreviation Standards
FTP File Transport Protocol
FAT File Allocation Table
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FDD Floppy Disk Drive
FE Fast Ethernet
FPS Frames Per Second
FSB Front-Side Bus

G

Abbreviation Standards
GDI Graphics Device Interface
GIF Graphic Interchange Format
GPS Global Positioning System
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GPL General Public License
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GSM Global System for Mobile
GB Giga-Byte
GUI Graphical User Interface
GWT Google Web Toolkit
GHz GigaHertz

H

Abbreviation Standards
HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTPS Hyper Text Transport Protocol Secure
HTML Hyper Text Mark-up Language
HSPA High Speed Packet Access
HSUPA High Speed Uplink Packet Access
HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access
HDD Hard Disk Drive
Hz Hertz
HDTV High Definition Television

I

Abbreviation Standards
IP Internet Protocol
I/O Input / Output
IDE Integrated Device Electronics
ISP Internet Service Provider
IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identit
ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
IC Integrated Circuit
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IDD International Direct Dialing
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
INI file Initialization file
IR InfraRed

J

Abbreviation Standards
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition
JDBC Java Database Connectivity
JDK Java Development Kit
JRE Java Runtime Environment
JS Java Script
JSP Java Server Pages
JVM Java Virtual Machine

K

Abbreviation Standards
Kb Kilobit
KB Kilobyte
Kbps Kilobits Per Second
KBps KiloBytes per second

L

Abbreviation Standards
LAN Local Area Network
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LED Light Emitting Diode
LTE Long Term Evolution
LGA Land Grid Array

M

Abbreviation Standards
MAC Media Access Control
Mb Megabit
MB Megabyte
ME Microsoft Edge
MHz Megahertz
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MMC Microsoft Management Console
MS Microsoft
MS-DOS Microsoft Disk Operating System
MSDN Microsoft Developer Network
MVC Model-View-Controller
MX Mail exchange
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
MP3 MPEG Layer 3

N

Abbreviation Standards
NFC Near Field Communication
NIC Network Interface Controller
NVRAM Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
NTFS New Technology File System

O

Abbreviation Standards
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OCR Optical Character Recognition
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
OOP Object Oriented Programming
OS Operation System / Open Source
OTG On the Go
ODA Open Document Architecture
OpenGL Open Graphics Library

P

Abbreviation Standards
P2P Peer to Peer
PAN Personal Area Network
PC Personal Computer
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI-E Peripheral Component Interconnect – Express
PCL Printer Command Language
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDF Portable Document Format
PET Personal Electronic Transactor
PID Process ID
PIN Personal Identification Number
PNG Portable Network Graphics
POP3 Post Office Protocol v3
PS/2 Personal System/2
POST Power On Self Test

Q

Abbreviation Standards
QR code Quick Response code
QVGA Quarter Video Graphics Array

R

Abbreviation Standards
RAM Random Access Memory
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAD Rapid Application Development
RGB Red, Green, Blue
RGBA Red, Green, Blue, Alpha
ROM Read Only Memory
RIP Raster Image Processor /Routing Information Protocol
RPM Revolutions Per Minute
RSS RDF Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication

S

Abbreviation Standards
S-Video Super-Video
SaaS Software as a Service
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SCWCD Sun Certified Web Component Developer
SD card Secure Digital card
SDK Software Development Kit
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SEO Search Engine Optimization
SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module
SMS Short Message Service / Security Management System
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol
SQL Structured Query Language
SSD Solid-State Drive
SSH Secure Shell
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SVGA Super Video Graphics Array
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
SWF Shock Wave Flash

T

Abbreviation Standards
TB Tera Byte
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TLD Top-Level Domain
TTF True Type Font

U

Abbreviation Standards
UAC User Account Control
UFS Unix File System
UI User Interface
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
Unicode UNIversal CODE
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTF-8 Unicode Transformation Format 8
UX User Experience

V

Abbreviation Standards
VR Virtual Reality
VB Visual Basic
VHD Virtual Hard Disk
VGA Video Graphics Array
VM Virtual Machine / Virtual Memory
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN Virtual Private Network
VCD Video Compact Disc

W

Abbreviation Standards
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Wireless Access Point / Wireless Application Protocol
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WMA Windows Media Audio
WMV Windows Media Video
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WPAN Wireless Personal Area Network
WZC Wireless Zero Configuration
WWW World Wide Web
W3C World Wide Web Consortium

X

Abbreviation Standards
XHTML eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML eXtensible Markup Language
x86 8086 processor