The List of Chat Acronyms & Text Message Shorthand


10Q: Thank You
2: Too
4: for
AFAICR: As Far As I Can Recall
AFAICR: As Far As I Can Remember
AFAICS: As Far As I Can See
AFAICT: As Far As I Can Tell
AFAIK: As Far As I Know
AFK: Away From Keyboard
AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
ANET: Austrian Network for eTourism
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
ASAP: as soon as possible
ASFG: Ask The F Google
ASP: Active Server Pages
ATEOTD: At The End Of The Day
ATM: at the moment
AWF: A Web Factory
AWOL: Absent Without Official Leave
AYB: All Your Base
AYBABTU: All Your Base Are Belong To…
B2B: Business to Business
B2B: Business To Customer
BBIAB: Be Back In A Bit
BBL: Be Back Later
BBQ: Barbecue
BBS: Be Back Shortly
BBS: Be Back Soon
BCNU: Be Seeing You
BFF: Best Friends Forever
BFN: bye for now
BGP: Border Gateway Protocol
BOFH: Bastard Operator From Hell
BRB: Be Right Back
BSOD: Blue Screen of Death
BTDT: Been There, Done That
BTW: by the way
BUMP: Bring Up My Post
CMIIW: Correct Me If I'm Wrong
CMS: Content Management Server
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
CSTIT: Computer Speech, Text and Inte…
CU: See You
CYA: Cover Your Ass
CYA: see ya
DEUA: Disabled Ebay Users Association
DFTT: Don't Feed The Trolls
DHTML: Dynamic Hypertext Markup Langu…
DIAF: Die In A Fire
DND: Do Not Disturb
DOA: Dead on Arrival
DOM: Document Object Model
EOF: end of file
EOL: End of Life
EOL: end of line
EOM: End of Message
EQ: EverQuest
ETA: Estimated Time of Arrival
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interfac…
FDN: French Data Network
FMCDH: From My Cold Dead Hands
FOAF: Friend of a Friend
FTFY: Fixed That For You
FTL: for the loss
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
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FTW: From The Wilderness
FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
FWIW: For What It's Worth
FYI: For Your Information
G2G: Good To Go
G2G: got to go
GBTW: Get back to work
GF: Good Fight
GF: Great Fight
GFC: Google Friends Connect
GFU: Good for you
GG: Good Game
GGS: Good Games
GJ: good job
GMTA: Great Minds Think Alike
GR: Good Race
Gratz: Congratulations
GTFO: get the fuck out
GTG: Good To Go
GTG: got to go
HAND: Have A Nice Day
HF: have fun
HITS: Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search
HRI: Human Rights Internet
HTH: Hope That Helps
HTH: Hope This Helps
HTML: HyperText Markup Language
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IAF: Internet Access Facilities
IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer0
IBTL: In Before The Lock
ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assig…
ICC: Internet Chess Club
ICMP: Internet Control Message Protoc…
ICRA: Internet Content Rating Associa…
ICS: Internet Connection Sharing
ICSA: Internet Cellular Smart Access
IDK: I don't know
IE: Internet Explorer
IEDR: IE Domain Registry
IESG: Internet Engineering Steering G…
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force

IGAAC: Internet Guide for Asian Ameri…
IGCS: Internet Guide for China Studie…
IGF: Internet Governance Forum
IGMP: Internet Group Management Proto…
IIOP: Internet Inter Orb Protocol
IIRC: If I Recall Correctly
IIRC: If I Remember Correctly
IIUC: If I understand correctly
IMAO: In My Arrogant Opinion
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protoco…
IMFAO: In My Fucking Arrogant Opinion
IMHO: In My Honest Opinion
IMHO: In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO: In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO: In My Opinion
INFRAWEBS: Intelligent Framework for…
IONO: I Don't Know
IOW: In Other Words
IP: Internet Protocol
IPEA: Internet Positioning European A…
IPPS: Internet Programming and Promot…
IRAS: Internet Review Arno Schmidt
IRC: Internet Relay Chat
IRL: In Real Life
ISOC: Internet Society
ISP: Internet Service Provider
ISPF: Internet Service Providers' For…
ITYM: I Think You Mean
IYKWIM: If You Know What I Mean
JAS: Just A Sec
JFTR: Just For The Record
JK: Just Kidding
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid
KOS: Kill On Sight
KTHX: OK, Thanks
KTHXBAI: OK, Thanks, Goodbye
L8R: Later
LFG: Looking For Group
LFM: Looking For More
LII: Librarians' Internet Index
LMAO: Laughing My Ass Off
LMFAO: laughing my f ass off
LMIRL: let's meet in real life
LMK: Let Me Know
LTNS: Long time, no see
LYLAB: Love You Like A Brother
LYLAS: love you like a sister
M8: mate
MBS: Multi-purpose Business Security
MBS/IP: Multi-purpose Business Securi…
MCIS: Microsoft Commercial Internet S…
MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Exte…
MINC: Multilingual Internet Names Con…
MMORPG: Massive Multiplayer Online Ro…
MOTD: Message of the Day
MTFBWY: May The Force Be With You
MUD: Multi-User Dungeon
MUSH: Multi-User Shared Hallucination
MWI: Mobile Web Initiative

MYOB: Mind Your Own Business
N1: nice one
NE1: anyone
NIFOC: naked in front of computer
NM: Nevermind
NM: No Message
NM: not much
NP: no problem
NSFW: Not Safe For Work
NSI: NASA Science Internet
nvm: nevermind
NVMD: Nevermind
O RLY: Oh Really
OFN: Old Freaking News
OIC: Oh, I see
OMFG: Oh My F God
OMG: Oh My God
OMGWTF: Oh My God What The F
OMW: Oh My Word
OMW: On My Way
ONOZ: Oh, No
op: operator
OP: original poster
OP: Outpost
OS: operating system
OSPF: Open Shortest Path First
OT: Off Topic
OTOH: On The Other Hand
OTP: on the phone
OTP: On The Piss
OTP: One True Pairing
P2P: Pay To Play
P2P: Peer to Peer
PAIR: Portal to Asian Internet Resour…
PAW: Parents Are Watching
PEBCAK: Problem Exists Between Chair…
PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboa…
PHP: PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PICS: Platform for Internet Content S…
PING: Packet Internet Gopher
PITA: pain in the arse
PITA: Pain in the Ass
PL: Power Leveling
PLMK: Please Let Me Know
PMSL: Pissing Myself Laughing
POS: Parent Over Shoulder
POS: piece of shit
POTS: Plain Old Telephone Service
POV: Point of View
PPL: people
PSWWWVL: Pacific Studies WWW Virtual…
PTKFGS: Punch The Keys For God's Sake
PW: Persistent World
QFT: Quoted For Truthiness
QIS: Qualcomm Internet Services
QWP: Equip
QWP: Equipment
QWP: Quit Whining, Please
Re: Hello again
REHI: Hello Again

RIA: Rich Internet Application
RIAP: Rural Internet Access Point
RL: Real Life
ROFL: Rolling On the Floor, Laughing
ROFLMAO: Rolling On Floor, Laughing M…
ROFLMAOWPIMP: Rolling On the Floor La…
ROFLOL: Rolling on Floor, Laughing Ou…
ROTFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO: Rolling On The Floor Laughi…
ROTFLMAOWPIMP: Rolling on the floor l…
ROTFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughin…
RSN: Real Soon Now
RTFB: Read The F Binary
RTFB: Read The F Book
RTFM: Read The F Manual
RTFS: Read The F Source
RTM: Reboot The Machine
SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on…
SCNR: Sorry, Could Not Resist
SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Pro…
SEMPO: Search Engine MarketingProfes…
SEO: Search Engine Optimization
SERP: Search Engine Ranking Page
SERPs: Search Engine Ranking Pages
SFW: Safe For Work
SGC: Server Gated Cryptography
SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Lan…
Sk8: Skate
Sk8r: Skater
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMH: Shaking My Head
SMIG: Southern Minnesota Internet Gro…
SNAFU: Situation Normal: All Fucked U…
SNMP: Simple Network Management Proto…
SOHF: Sense Of Humor Failure
SOPE: Skyrix Object Publishing Enviro…
STFU: Shut The F Up
STFW: Search The F Web
SWAD: Semantic Web AdvancedDevelopme…
SWD: Semantic Web Deployment
SWD: Solliès Web Design
SWSW: Semantic Web Services Week
T2UL: Talk To You Later
T2YL: Talk to you later
TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing…
TBF: Time Between Failures
TBH: to be honest
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol…
TDA: Tetrault Design Associates
TG: That's Great
TGIF: Thank God Its Friday
thnx: thanks
THX: Thanks
TIA: thanks in advance
TINC: There Is No Cabal
TIPHON: Telecommunications and Intern…
TISPAN: Telecoms & Internet converged…
TMI: Too Much Information

TNX: Thanks
TOS: Terms of Service
TTBOMK: To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN: Ta-Ta for Now
TTUL: talk to you later
TTYL: talk to you later
TX: Thanks
TY: Thank You
TYT: Take Your Time
TYVM: thank you very much
U: you
UDP/IP: User Datagram Protocol/Intern…
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
UTFSE: Use The F Search Engine
w/: with
w/e: whatever
w/o: without
W8: wait
WAI: Web Accessibility Initiative
WB: Welcome Back
WBS: Word Based Search
WCM: Web Content Management
WHATWG: Web Hypertext Application Tec…
WML: Website META Language
WML: Wireless Markup Language
WMS: Web Management System
woot: We Own the Other Team
WRT: with regard to
WSS: Web Storage System
WTB: Want to Buy
WTF: What The F
WTG: Way To Go
WTH: what the hell
WTS: Want to Sell
WTT: want to trade
WUBU2: What You Been Up To
WUG: What You Got
WUU2: What You Up To
WWW: World Wide Web
WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get
XHR: XMLHttpRequest
XHTML: Extensible Hypertext Markup La…
XML: Extensible Markup Language
YAGTOH: You Are Going To Own Him
YHBT: You Have Been Trolled
YKW: You Know What
YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary
YOYO: You're On Your Own
YTMND: You're The Man Now, Dog
YW: You're Welcome