Lesson 1:

ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency

WAN Wide Area Network
NCP Network Control Protocol
TCP Transfer Control Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
CSNET Computer Science Network
BITNET Because Its Time Network
JANET Joint Access Network
MILNET Military Network
FTP File Transfer Protocol
MUD Multiuser dungeons/dimensions/domains
NSF National Science Foundation
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
GUI Graphical User Interface
IAB Internet Architecture Board
InterNIC Internet Network Information Center
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
RFC Request for Comments
Lesson 2:
NAP Network Access Point
ISP Internet Service Provider
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
PPP Point-to-point Protocol
LAN Local Area Network
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
DSL Digital Service Line/Loop
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
TCP Transfer Control Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
DNS Domain Name System
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
NIC Network Interference Card
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for
Microwave Access
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
GAN Global Area Network
SMS Simple Message Service
CSD Circuit-Switched Data
GPRS General Packet Radio Service

USSD Unstructured Supplementary Services

Data
WML Wireless Markup Language
HDML Handheld Device Markup Language
BPL Broadband over Power Lines
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
NSP
ACKs Sequence numbers and
acknowledgements
DNS Domain Name System
URL Uniform Resource Locator
FTP File Transfer Protocol
Lesson 3:
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
POP Post Office Protocol
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
CAUCE Coalition against Unsolicited
Commercial Email
WWW World Wide Web
Lesson 4:
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GIFF Graphics Interchange File Format
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
PNG Portable Network Graphics
LZW Lempel-Zev-Welch
Lesson 5:
PCM Pulse-Code Modulation
.AVI Audio Video Interlace
.MP3 MPEG Layer 3
.RA Real Audio
.AIFF Audio Interchange File Format
.MID Musical Instrument Digital Interface
.MPEG Motion Pictures Experts Group
RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol
RTP Real-time Transport Protocol
RTCP Real Transport Control Protocol
.WMV Windows Media Video
.WMA Windows Media Audio
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol