Decronym Bot , 29 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

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

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS	HTTP over SSL
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol for email
IP	Internet Protocol
LAMP	Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP stack for webhosting
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NFS	Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
NVR	Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
PiHole	Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex	Brand of media server package
SMB	Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
SSO	Single Sign-On
Unifi	Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
XMPP	Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging
k8s	Kubernetes container management package
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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23 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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