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Do you know your tech acronyms?

4:33:11 am mst / 15 February 2001 found by paul / filed in culture / source The Times 165 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails

A recent survey of CompuServe users show that a large fraction do not know what many of the standard technology acronyms stand for, including RAM, WWW, SMS, and URL.

Amusingly enough, "7 per cent of those surveyed claimed to have used the acronym VPL (Visible Panty Line) in conversation about the Internet... 63 per cent of those who talked about VPL knew what it stood for, making it the third most recognised acronym in the survey."

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www acronym by MysteriousStranger 10:04:04 am mst / 15 February 2001 / # 1

"The language of the Internet has been condensed into acronyms for a reason — try saying World Wide Web every time you pass along a web address." Erm... World Wide Web is three syllables. double-U double-U double-U is nine syllables. Sometimes the reason acronyms evolve is just habit, not logic. IHMO, of course. :-)