Decronym Bot , 5 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol for email
IP	Internet Protocol
NAT	Network Address Translation
POP3	Post Office Protocol v3, for email; contrast IMAP
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC	Single-Board Computer
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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