Glossary of ACRONYMS AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies ANS Advanced Networks and Services ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPANET Advanced Resaerch Projects Agency Network AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph Company AUP Acceptable Use Policy AVAIL Availablity of network access AWK Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (Unix Utility) BASIC Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code BBN Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. BBS Bulletin Board System Berknet Berkeley Network BESYS Bell Operating System BIS Business Information Systems (At Bell Labs) BITnet Because It's Time Network BLN Bell Labs Network BRL Ballistics Research Laboratory BSD Berkeley Systems Distribution of Unix BTL Bell Telephone Laboratories CBI Charles Babbage Institute CCC Computer Chess Competition CCN College Campus Net (UCLA) CCR Command and Control Research CPU Central Processing Unit CS Computer Science CSnet Computer Science Network (later Computer and Science Network) CTSS Compatible Time-Sharing System DEC Digital Equipment Corporation DEL Decode-Encode Language DoD United States Department of Defense Email Electronic Mail EUUG European Unix Users Group FA From ARPANET FCC Federal Communications Commission FJCC Fall Joint Computer Conference (AFIPS) FIDOnet FIDO Bulletin Board System Network Free-Net Free access community Network (now a registered trademark of the National Public Telecommunications Network) ftp file transfer protocol GECOS General Electric Comprehensive Operating System (later GCOS) grep global/regular expression/print (Unix command) honeydanber Honeyman, David A. Nowitz, Brian E. Redman's Version of UUCP IAB Internet Activities Board IBM International Business Machines Corporation IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IMP Interface Message Processor INWG International Network Working Group IPTO Information Processing Techniques Office Internet Internetwork of Networks IRC Internet Relay Chat JCL Job Control Language K-12 Net Kindergarten to 12th grade Network listserv Electronic mailing list server MAC Man And Computer, Multi-Access Computer MC Mathematisch Centrum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) MERIT Michigan Education Research Instruction Triade MILNET Military Network MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology MOO MUD, Object Oriented MUD Multi-User Dungeon MULTICS MULtiplexed Information and Computing Service MUSH Multi-User Shared Hallucinations NAC Network Analysis Corporation NCP Network Control Program or Network Control Protocol Netiquette Network users etiquette Netnews Network news Netizen Network Citizen, net.citizen NII National Information Infrastructure NIL Network Interchange Language NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol NREN National Education and Research Network NSF National Science Foundation NSFnet National Science Foundation Network NTIA National Telecommunications Information Administration NWG Network Working Group NYPSC New York Public Service Commission PWB Programmer's Workbench REDEFUS Redefine Universal Access RFC Request For Comment RFP Request For Proposal RFQ Request For Quotation RJE Remote Job Entry RLE Research Laboratory for Electronics rn read news SDC System Development Corporation SJCC Spring Joint Computer Conference (AFIPS) SRI Stanford Research Institute TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TIP Terminal IMP UCB University of California at Berkeley UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCSD University of California at San Diego UCSB University of California at Santa Barbara UNC University of North Carolina UNSW University of New South Wales Usenet Users network USG Unix Support Group UUCP Unix to Unix CoPy V6 Version 6 (Unix) V7 Version 7 (Unix) VMSnet Virtual Memory System network WWW World Wide Web June 5, 1996 =============================================================== This article is a draft chapter from Michael Hauben's and Ronda Hauben's netbook titled "Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet." *Commercial use is prohibited* Please send us any comments about this draft. Send comments to both hauben@columbia.edu and rh120@columbia.edu.