"AOL Instant Messenger" aka America On Line Instant Messenger...

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[–] 9 points 1 day ago

People were getting crazy with acronyms back then. Like Wine - "Wine Is Not an Emulator".

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    At least it ain't VHDL, which stands for VHSIC Hardware Description Language, or, in full, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language. Its name is as much of a clusterfuck as the language itself.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    ARM is Advanced RISC Machine
    RISC is Reduced Instruction Set Computer

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  • [–] 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    At least it isn't recursive.

    Wine.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Wait until you find out what GNU stands for

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    Air Intercept Missile

    I don't see it.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Also FedEx Express: "Federal Express Express"

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    If I recall AOL was changed to just be AOL like how KFC is now just KFC around when they merged with time warner

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Ask a PHP developer what it stands for

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