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Apr 24 2007

Acronyms All Web Developers Should Know

Posted by Jon Lee in Web Development, tags: , ,

In web development, we use a lot of acronyms every day for many reasons:

  • Accepted convention
  • To save syllables
  • To impress
  • To sound smart
  • Because we don’t know what the actual acronym stands for

I’m sure you use terms like RSS, PHP and CGI all the time but do you know what they actually stand for? If you do, great! If not, here’s a list in alphabetical order!

  • AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript And XML
  • ASP - Active Server Pages
  • CGI - Common Gateway Interface
  • CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
  • DHTML - Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
  • DOM - Document Object Model
  • FTP - File Transfer Protocol
  • HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
  • HTTP(s) – Hypertext Transfer Protocol (secure)
  • PHP - PHP Hypertext Preprocessor*
  • RSS - Really Simple Syndication
  • SQL - Structured Query Language
  • SSH - Secure Shell
  • SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
  • URI/URL – Uniform Resource Identifier/Locator
  • WWW - World Wide Web
  • XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
  • XML - Extensible Markup Language

* PHP is a recursive initialism like GNU (GNU’s Not Unix)

This list is just off the top of my head, so I’m sure I’m missing some important ones. Leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list!

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9 Responses to “Acronyms All Web Developers Should Know”
  1. Douglas Karr says:
    April 25, 2007 at 12:40 am

    I had heard that PHP was Personal Home Pages when it was initially developed. Don’t forget SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)!

  2. Jake says:
    April 25, 2007 at 6:28 am

    I’d add JSP and JS since you still see them around. Possibly XSL as well. You can figure out what most acronyms mean by searching define: FOO on Google anyway.

  3. Cynthia Blue says:
    April 25, 2007 at 9:04 am

    “Because we don’t know what the actual acronym stands for” LOL that’s a good one. :)

  4. Paul says:
    April 25, 2007 at 10:42 am

    Good list.

    Recursive acronyms rule :smile: .

  5. Florchakh says:
    April 25, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    I do. :evil:

    What a great solution for chiclets! Thanks for spreading, I’m going to check it on my blogs :mrgreen:

  6. KellyCho says:
    April 25, 2007 at 4:35 pm

    I didn’t know about that “define:” feature on google, thanks!

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  9. Pua Lingo says:
    April 1, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Also:

    MySQL – My Structured Query Language
    JSON – JavaScript Object Notation

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