The purpose of this list is to provide you with explanations
for many of those strange acronyms you see on the net so you
don't have to write a lot of "What does that mean?" messages.

404 I have no clue (error message 404, address not found)
^5 High Five
AA Alcoholics Anonymous
AAA Any Advice Appreciated
AAAAA Travel club for alcoholics
ADGR All Donations Gratefully Received
ADN Any Day Now
AFAIAA As Far As I Am Aware
AFAICS As Far As I Can See
AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFAIR As Far As I Recall
AFK Away From Keyboard
AGAN As Good As New
AIC Ain't It Cool!!!
AI As If
AKA Also Known As
ALOIA A Lot Of It Anyways
AMIGA A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
ANAWFOS And Now A Word From Our Sponsor
APPLE Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASWGAFF Ask Someone Who Gives A Flying F-!
A/S/L Age/Sex/ Location
ATM At The Moment
ATTN Attention!
ATS Across The Street
AWGTHTGTTA? Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet?
AWOL Absent Without Leave
AYT Are You There?

B4N Bye for Now
B4 Before
BAK Back At Keyboard
BAMF Bad Assed Mother F-er
BAY Back At You
BAS Big As Smile
BASIC Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
BBIAF Be Back In A Few
BBL Be Back Later
BBN Bye Bye Now
BBS Be Back Soon
BBS Bulletin Board System
B/C Because
BCC Blind Carbon Copy
BCNU (I’ll) Be Seeing You
BEG Big Evil Grin
BF Boyfriend
BFD Big Fuck--- Deal
BFN Bye For Now
BG Big Grin
BIBO Beer In – Beer Out
BIF Basic In Fact
BION Believe It Or Not
BIOYA Blow It Out You’re Ass
BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your I/O Port
BMOC Big Man On Campus
BOC But Of Course
BOT Back On Topic
BRB Be Right Back
BRS Big Red Switch
BS Bull Shit
BSF But Seriously Folks
BTA But Then Again (in response to IOW)
BTDT Been There Done That
BTDTGAS Been There Done That – Got A Shirt
BTL Better Than Life
BTSOOM Beats The Shit Out Of Me
BTW By The Way
BWL Bursting With Laughter
BYOB Bring Your Own Bottle (booze)

CAB Cheap Ass Bastard/Bitch
C See
C&G Chuckle And Grin
CB Call Back
CD-ROM Consumer Device - Rendered Obsolete in Months
CFD Call For Discussion
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CICO Coffee In, Coffee Out
CID Crying In Disgrace
CL Cross Link
CM Call Me
CNP Continued (in my) Next Post
CP Chat Post
CPU Central Processing Unit (The brains of your computer)
CRAFT Can't Remember A F-ing Thing
CRBT Crying Real Big Tears
CSG Chuckle, Snicker, Grin
CU See you
CUL8R See You Later
CYA See Ya!
CYAL8R See You Later

DAY Dreamed About You
DDI Don't Do It
DEC Do Expect Cuts
DFG Devilish Fucking Grin
DGUTDJ Don’t Give Up The Day Job!
DIIK Damned If I Know
DILLIGAF? Does It Look Like I Give A F-?
DL or D/L Download, transmit to you
DLTBBB Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite
DOS Disk Operating System
DOS Defective Operating System
DQM Don’t Quote Me
DQMOT Don’t Quote Me On That/This
DTM Does That Mean
DTRT Do The Right Thing
DWBH Don't Worry Be Happy
DWISNWID Do What I Say, Not What I Do
DYJHIW Don’t You Just Hate It When…

EG Evil Grin
EMSG Email Message
EOD End Of Discussion
EOF End Of File
EOT End Of Thread (i.e., don't reply to this message)
ES&D or ESAD Eat S- and Die
ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym

F2F Face To Face
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FC Fingers Crossed
FDB F-ing Disrespectful Bastard/Bitch
FEIYD For Ever In Your Debt
FISH First In, Still Here
FITB Fill In The Blank_________
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FOAD Fuck Of And Die
FOCL Falls Of Chair Laughing
FR For Real
FTBOMH From The Bottom Of My Heart
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTG Fuck This/That Guy/Girl
FTL Follow The Link
FU Fucked Up
FUBAR F-ed Up Beyond All Repair
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYA For Your Amusement
FYDITM F--- You Directly In The Mouth
FYEO For Your Eyes Only
FY&TSYRIO F--- You And The Sysop You Rode In On
FYI For Your Information

<G> Grin (add <> for bigger grins)
<<<G>>> A BIG GRIN
GA Go Ahead
GAC Get A Clue
GAFIA Get Away From It All (as in drop out of ILink for a bit)
GAG Get A Grip
GAL Get A Life
GDYMFAHGTH God Damn You Mother F-ing Ass Hole Go to Hell
GD&R Grinning, Ducking & Running
GF GirlFriend
GFN Gone For Now
GGL Giggle
GH Getting Hard (see GW)
GHM# Give Him/Her My Number
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting
GM Good Move
GMBO Giggling My But Off
GOLL Getting/Got One Long List
GR&D Grinning, Running & Ducking
GTH Go To Him/Her
GTSY Glad To See You
GW Getting Wet (see GH)

H&K Hugs & Kisses
HABU Have A Better Un
HAGN Have A Good Night
HAGU Have A Good ’Un
HAND Have A Nice Day
HAS Hip Ass Slang
HHIS Hanging Head In Shame
HSH Home Sweet Home
HTFSIKG How the F- Should I Know Girl/Guy??
HTH Hope This Helps
HYU Hook You Up
HUB Head Up But
HWISTKT How Was I Supposed To Know That?

IA Important Acronym
IAE In Any Event
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IBM Inadequate Business Management
IBM I Blame Microsoft
IC I See
ICBW I Could Be Wrong
ICQ I Seek You
ICYDK In Case You Didn’t Know
IDK I Don't Know
IDTIW I Don't Think I'm Wrong
IDTT I'll Drink To That!
IIDKB If I Didn’t Know Better
IIR If I Recall
IIRC If I Remember Correctly
IITYWIMIWHTKY If I Tell You What It Means, I Will Have To Kill You
IITYWIMWYBMAD If I Tell You What It Means, Will You Buy Me A Drink?
IIWY If I Were You
IKWYM I Know What You Mean
ILY I Love You
IM Instant Message
IME In My Experience
IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMOBO In My Own Biased Opinion
IMD14U I’m The One For You
INPO In No Particular Order
IOW In Other Words
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRL In Real Life
IRMCI I Rest My Case
ISC I Stand Corrected
ISDN It Still Does Nothing
ISMW I Shot My Wad
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISTM It Seems To Me
ISTR I Seem To Recall…
ISWYM I See What You Mean
ITRW In The Real World
IWALU I Will Always Love You
IWBNI It Would Be Nice If
IWFM It Works For Me
IWW?I Wonder Why?
IYDMMA If You Don’t Mind Me Asking
IYFEG Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group
IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean
IYO In Your Opinion

JAM Just A Minute
JFTR Just For The Record
JK Just Kidding
JMO Just My Opinion
JOKE Just One Kidding Everyone
JOT Just One Thought
JSNM Just Stark Naked Magic
JTLYK Just To Let You Know
JTFM Just The Fact, Man/Mam

K Okay
KISS Keep it Simple, Stupid
KIT Keep In Touch
KMA Kiss My Ass
KMYF Kiss Me You Fool
KOC Kiss On Cheek (also KOTC)
KOL Kiss On Lips (also KOTL)

L Laugh
L8R Later
LAB&TYD Life's A Bitch & Then You Die.
LAP Long Ass Posts/Pictures
LHM Lord Help Me
LHO Laughing Head Off
LHU Lord Help Us
LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMSO Laughing My Socks Off
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LSHMBH Laughing So Hard My Belly Hurts
LSHTTARD Laughing So Hard The Tears Are Running Down
LTNS Long Time No See
LTS Laughing To Self
LUWAMH Love You With All My Heart
LY Love Ya

MACINTOSH Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
MD My Dope
MHOTY My Hat’s Off To You
MHBFY My Heart Bleeds For You
MICROSOFT Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIPS Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
MorF (M/F) Male or Female
MOF Matter of Fact
MOTD Message Of The Day
MOTOS Member of the Opposite Sex
MOTSS Member of the Same Sex
MSG Message
MTF More To Follow
MUD Multi-User Dungeon
MYOB Mind Your Own Business

N/A Not Applicable
NA Narcotics Anonymous
NADT Not A Damn Thing
NBIF No Basis In Fact
NC No Comment
NFW No F---ing Way
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard
NM Never Mind
NNTA No Need To Answer
NP No Problem
NPD No Problem Dude (Dudette)
NRN No Reply Necessary
NRP None Real-time Processor
NTOOT Nine Times Out Of Ten
NTW Not To Worry
NWIH No Way In Hell

OAO Over And Out
OIC Oh, I See
OMG Oh My God
OOFA One Other F-ing Acronym
OOTB Out Of The Blue or Out Of The Box
OOTC Obligatory On Topic Comment
OPM Other Peoples Money
OS Operating System
OS/2 Obsolete Soon, Too
OTF On The Floor
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTP On The Phone
OTT Off The Topic
OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head
OYA On Your Ass

PCYLIHOONL Please Cross Your Legs, I Have Only One Nail Left
PDA Public Display Of Attention
PDQ Pretty Damn Quick
PDS Please Don’t Shoot
PEBKAC Problems Exist Between Keyboard And Chair
PENTIUM Produces Erroneous Numbers Thru Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics
PIMP Peeing In My Pants
PITA Pain In The Ass
PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PM Private Message
PMP Pee’d My Pants
POAHF Put On A Happy Face
POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
POV Point Of View
PPNE Please Post No Email
PPL People
PS Post Script

Q Question
QT Cutie
QTAB Cute As A Button
QTP Cute Pie

R Are
RCI Rectal-Cranial Inversion
RE Regarding
RHP Read His/Her Post
RISC Reduced Into Silly Code
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLAHMS ROTFL And Holding My Side
ROTFLAPMP ROTFL And Peeing My Pants
ROTFLMAO ROTFL My Ass Off
ROTFLMAOAY ROTFL My Ass Off At You
ROTFLMAOWTIME ROTFL My Ass Off With Tears In My Eyes
ROTFLUTS ROTFL Unable To Speak
RPTS Repost That S8/Stuff
RSF Right Said Fred! (the Janitor :)
RSN Real Soon Now
RTFM Read The F----ing Manual
RTI Real Time Interruption
RU Are You???????
RU4R Are You For Real?
RUOK Are You OK?

SARO Smart Ass Reply Only
SAYL Sorry About Your Luck
SBPH Should Be Posted Here
SCSI System Can't See It
SETE Smile Ear To Ear
Sh8 Shit
SHID Slaps Head In Disgust
SID So I Do/Did
SIS Smokin Is Smokin
SITD Still In The Dark
SMO Serious Mode On or Safe Mode Only
SMOff Serious Mode Off
SNAFU Situation Normal: All F- Up
SNERP Snot-Nosed Egotistical Rude Person
SO Significant Other
SOB Do you really need *me* to explain this one?
SOHF Sense Of Humor Failure
SOT Short Of Time
SOTMG Short Of Time Must Go
SPAM SPiced hAM. Hormel's canned meat.
SRHI So Rumor Has It
STB Simply The Best
ST-TNG Star Trek, The Next Generation
ST-TOS Star Trek, The Original Series
SWAK Sealed With A Kiss
SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed
SWL Screaming With Laughter
SYSOP SYStem Operator
SYS See Ya Soon

TA The Acronoym or Thanks Again
TAFN That's All For Now
TAL Thanks A Lot
TANJ There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TAT Turnaround Time
TBIB The Bitch Is Back
TC Telephone Call
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TCOY Take Care Of Yourself
TDM Too Damn Many
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIAFI Tried It And F- It
TIATLG Truly, I Am The Living/Loving God
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TILII Tell It Like It Is
TITBTTHSF This Is The Best Thing That Happened So Far
TITC This Is The Crosslink
TGIF Thank God Its Friday
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLG The Living God
TMBCU Till My Bowels Cramp Up
TMF To Much Fun
TMTT Too Much To Type
TNSTAAFL There’s No Such Thing As Free Lunch
TNT Till Next Time
TNTL Trying Not To Laugh
TVHNTL Trying Very Hard Not To Laugh
TNTPIMP Trying Not To Pee In My Pants
TRRHNTPIMP Trying Really Really Hard Not To Pee In My Pants
TOY Thinking Of You
TPTB The Powers That Be
TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTFS Try This For Size
TTT Time To Twist
TTUL Talk (or Type) To You Later
TTYL Talk To Ya Later
TW Two Weeks
TWBAR That Would Be A Riot
TWIS That's What I Said/Stated
TYVM Thank You Very Much

U You
UL or U/L Upload, send to the BBS
URL Universal Resource Locator

VC Virtual Community
VEG Very Evil Grin
VGI Very Good Idea

W Wink
WABOL What A Bunch Of Losers
WAIDW What Am I Doing Wrong?
WAS Wild Ass Guess
WB Welcome Back
WBS Write Back Soon
WDTM What Does That Mean
WEG Wicked Evil Grin
WFM Works For Me
WHYD What Have you Done?
WINDOWS Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
WTFRU Who The Fuck Are You?
W/O Without
WOB Waste Of Bandwith/Brainpower
WOB Without Boyfriend
WOG Without Girlfriend
WOFTAM Waste Of Flaming Time And Money
WRT With Regard To
WTF What/Who the F-
WTG Way To Go
WTG Way To Go
WTH? What/Who The Hell?
WUASTC Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
WYGIWYPF What You Get Is What You Pay For
WYMM? Will You Marry Me?
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

XHNS eXtra Hot’N Spicy

YBS You'll Be Sorry
YGWYPF You Get What You Pay For
YHBW You Had/Have Been Warned
YKYS You Know Your Sh8/Shit
YOY Why Oh Why
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary.
YWSYLS You Win Some You Lose Some

ZIAO Zoning In And Out