Old article I found in my bookmarks. Although I didn’t have the use for it, I thought it was interesting.

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

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    IP Internet Protocol
    TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
    Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.

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