Commonly Used Abbreviations in CMC
Acronym – Meaning
- 24/7 – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- AFAIK — As Far As I Know
- AFK — Away From Keyboard
- AKA — Also Known As
- ASAP — As Soon As Possible
- A/S/L – Age/Sex/Location
- ATTN — Attention
- B/C — BeCause (frequently just “b/c”)
- B4 — Before
- BBL — Be Back Later
- BBS – Bulletin Board System
- BFD – Big Fucking Deal
- BFN — Bye For Now
- BRB — Be Right Back
- BS — Bull Shit
- BTW — By The Way
- CC – Carbon Copy
- CIS — Compuserve Information System ™
- CU — See yoU
- D/L — Download, transmit to you
- DK — Don’t Know
- DTP – DeskTop Publishing
- EOD – End Of Discussion
- ESP — ESPecially (frequently just “esp.”)
- F2F – Face-to-face
- FAQ — Frequently Asked Question
- FTP — File Transfer Protocol
- FWIW — For What It’s Worth
- FYI — For Your Information
- G — Grin
- GA – Go Ahead
- GD&R — Grinning, Ducking & Running
- GMTA — Great Minds Think Alike
- GPF — General Protection Fault
- HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language
- IC — I See
- IME — In My Experience
- IMHO — In My Humble Opinion
- IRL – In Real Life
- ISP – Internet Service Provider
- JAS — Just A Second
- KOTC – Kiss On The Cheek
- L8R — Later
- LMAO — Laughing My Ass Off
- LOL — Laughing Out Loud
- LTNS – Long Time, No See
- M$ – Micro$oft (also ‘MS’)
- M/F — Male Or Female
- MOTD – Message Of The Day
- MUD — Multi User Domain (or Dungeon)
- NBL — Not Bloody Likely
- OMG – Oh My God!
- O/S – Operating System
- OTD – Out The Door
- PD — Public Domain
- PG — Post Graduate
- PKB – Pot, Kettle, Black!
- POP – Point Of Presence; Post Office Protocol
- POV — Point Of View
- PPL – PeoPLe
- PPP – Point to Point Protocol
- RE — REgarding
- RL – Real Life
- ROFL — Rolling On the Floor Laughing
- ROTFLMAO – Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
- RPG — Role Playing Games
- RTFM – Read The Fucking Manual
- RU – aRe yoU — ? (e.g RU m/f?)
- SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SO — Significant Other
- SOP — Standard Operating Procedure
- SYSOP — SYStem OPerator
- TFS — Three Finger Salute (Ctrl-Alt-Del)
- TGIF — Thank God Its Friday (sometimes TFIF)
- TLA – Three Letter Acronym
- U/L — Upload, send to the BBS
- UAE — Unrecoverable Application Error
- URL – Uniform Resource Locator
- VR – Virtual Reality
- VC – Virtual Community (sometimes ‘vircomm’)
- W/ — With (frequently just “w/”)
- W/O — WithOut (frequently just “w/o”)
- W8 – Wait
- WB – Welcome Back
- WSH – Weird Shit Happens
- WTF — What The Fuck
- WWW — World Wide Web
- WYSIWYG — What You See Is What You Get
- YHBW – You Have Been Warned
- YK – You’re Kidding; You Know
- YR – Yeah Right
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