WWW & the Acronyms
AAU
* Amateur Athletic Union - governing board for athletes in U.S.
ABC radio & television network
* American Broadcasting Company
ACLU eager advocates for the indefensible
* American Civil Liberties Union
AFL a federation of labor unions; associated with the CIO
* American Federation of Labor
AFL now known as the AFC; one of the two conferences of the NF
* American Football League
AFRTS
* Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
AFTRA Union
* American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
AFVN part of AFRTS
* American Forces Vietnam Network
AID
* Agency for International Development, a U.S. Government agency
AKS
* Alternate Keyword Spelling; acronym used in this database, followed by the alternate spellings of keywords that we hope search engines
will pick up on & reference
ALCOA
* Aluminum Company of America
ALS neuro-muscular disease
* Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease
AP
* the Associated Press; Association of news gathering organizations
ARPANet
* The U.S. Department of Defense's Advance Research Projects Agency Network, designed to decentralize computer communications; the
beginning of what we now know as the Internet (after morphing into MILNet and NSFNet for a while)
ASCII coding scheme
* acronym from American Standard Code for Information Interchange; used to represent alpha-numeric characters as a standardized binary
value
ATM
* acronym from Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a method of data movement over wires
ATM
* acronym from Automatic Teller Machine
ATP
* acronym for Adenosine Tri-Phosphate, a major chemical involved in cellular energy release
Azon
* Azimuth only steerable bomb, the first "smart bomb", employed by the U.S. Air Force at the end of World War II
BASIC computer programming language
* Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code; developed in 1964 at Dartmouth College
BATF
* Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; U.S. Government agency
BBC
* the British Broadcasting Corporation
bit
* acronym for binary digit; eight of them make up a byte
CBC radio and television network
* Canadian Broadcasting System
CBS radio and television network
* Columbia Broadcasting System; started as the United Independent Broadcasting Co, purchased in 1928 by William S. Paley & later renamed
CIA
* Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government spy house
CIO a federation of labor unions; associated with the AFL
* Congress of Industrial Organization
CNN
* Cable News Network
CORE
* acronym for civil rights organization that was founded in Chicago in 1942 by Farmer, Houser & Rustin; originally it stood for
Committee On Racial Equality; later it was renamed the Congress Of Racial Equality
CREEP
* Committee to Re-Elect the Preisdent; Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election committee; up to their eyeballs in Watergate
DDT
* a chemical compound (pesticide) whose full name is dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane
ENIAC early electronic computer (1945)
* Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
FBI
* the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the main US government police agency
FCC
* Federal Communications Commission
FDIC
* United States government agency --- the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation --- it insures bank deposits
fwiw
* abbreviation for for what its worth
GE
* General Electric Corp.
GPS
* Global Positioning System; originally a military-only satellite locator system
HEMA
* hydrogel poly-hydroxyethyl methacrylate hydrophilic hydrocarbon
HEW
* United States Government cabinet department of Health, Education and Welfare
IBM
* International Business Machine Corporation
IRA
* Irish Republican Army; Catholic terrorist organization in Norther Ireland
KGB
* Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti Committee for State Security, USSR
KKK a sorry-ass collection of murderous ignorant redneck peckerwood moron crackers
* Ku Klux Klan
KLM Royal Dutch Airline
* Koninklijke Luchtvaartmaatschappij N.V. (Royal Air Transportation Company), founded 1919
LPGA
* Ladies Professional Golf Association; founded in 1950
MICR
* acronym from Magnetic Ink Character Recognition; the account information found at the bottom of checks
M.I.T.
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPAA
* Motion Picture Association of America --- the movie producer's trade association
MSG
* monosodium glutamate, the chemical food additive in Chinese food with toxic effects (flush, headache)
NAACP civil rights organization
* National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded 1909
NASA the United States' civilian space agency; created July 29, 1958
* stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASCAR
* National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing; founded February 1948
NATO
* stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military treaty group composed of the U.S., Canada, England and most of the western
European nations
NBC
* National Broadcasting Company, a division of General Electric Corp.
NFL formed August 20, 1920, in Canton, Ohio as the American Professional Football Association
* National Football League; name changed to National Football League June 24, 1922; has two conferences: AFC & NFC
NOW
* National Organization for Women
NRA
* the National Rifle Association
NRA
* the National Raquetball Association
NYC
* abbreviation for New York City
O.E.D.
* acronym for the Oxford English Dictionary
OPEC
* the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the big crude oil cartel; founded September 1960
PARC Xerox Corporation's
* Palo Alto Research Center
PBS
* Public Broadcasting System, the network of taxpayer supported television stations in the United States
PGA
* Professional Golfers' Association
PLO
* Palestine Liberation Organization
PVC
* polyvinyl chloride
QUANTAS the Australian national airline, founded in 1920
* originally Queensland and Northern Territories Aerial Services, Ltd.
Radar
* short for Radio Direction and Ranging
RCA
* Radio Corporation of America
REM
* Rapid-Eye-Movement sleep
REMF pronounced "remph"
* derogatory expletive; sanitized version: Rear Echelon Maintenance Force; original version: Rear Echelon Mother-F**ker: a soldier in
name only ... usually found at the antipodes of any conflict
RTNDA
* acronym: Radio Television News Directors' Association
SAC
* Strategic Air Command, the United States Air Force's nuclear delivery branch
SI
* Sports Illustrated magazine
SNCC
* Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNL
* "Saturday Night Live" television program
THC
* tetrahydrocanabinol, the active chemical agent in marijuana
TVA
* Tennessee Valley Authority
UAW
* United Automobile Workers union
UFO
* Unidentified Flying Object
Unabom
* acronym of formerly-anonymous terrorist; University Airline Bomber
UNCLE fictional law enforcement organization headed by Alexander Waverly
* United Network Command for Law and Enforcement
UPC
* Universal Product Code the bar codes we all know and love
UPI
* United Press International; news wire service
USIA
* United States Information Agency
WWF now the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)
* World Wrestling Federation
YMCA
* Young Men's Christian Association
ZOWIE fictional quasi-governmental organization headed by Lloyd C. Cramden
AAU
* Amateur Athletic Union - governing board for athletes in U.S.
ABC radio & television network
* American Broadcasting Company
ACLU eager advocates for the indefensible
* American Civil Liberties Union
AFL a federation of labor unions; associated with the CIO
* American Federation of Labor
AFL now known as the AFC; one of the two conferences of the NF
* American Football League
AFRTS
* Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
AFTRA Union
* American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
AFVN part of AFRTS
* American Forces Vietnam Network
AID
* Agency for International Development, a U.S. Government agency
AKS
* Alternate Keyword Spelling; acronym used in this database, followed by the alternate spellings of keywords that we hope search engines
will pick up on & reference
ALCOA
* Aluminum Company of America
ALS neuro-muscular disease
* Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease
AP
* the Associated Press; Association of news gathering organizations
ARPANet
* The U.S. Department of Defense's Advance Research Projects Agency Network, designed to decentralize computer communications; the
beginning of what we now know as the Internet (after morphing into MILNet and NSFNet for a while)
ASCII coding scheme
* acronym from American Standard Code for Information Interchange; used to represent alpha-numeric characters as a standardized binary
value
ATM
* acronym from Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a method of data movement over wires
ATM
* acronym from Automatic Teller Machine
ATP
* acronym for Adenosine Tri-Phosphate, a major chemical involved in cellular energy release
Azon
* Azimuth only steerable bomb, the first "smart bomb", employed by the U.S. Air Force at the end of World War II
BASIC computer programming language
* Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code; developed in 1964 at Dartmouth College
BATF
* Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; U.S. Government agency
BBC
* the British Broadcasting Corporation
bit
* acronym for binary digit; eight of them make up a byte
CBC radio and television network
* Canadian Broadcasting System
CBS radio and television network
* Columbia Broadcasting System; started as the United Independent Broadcasting Co, purchased in 1928 by William S. Paley & later renamed
CIA
* Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government spy house
CIO a federation of labor unions; associated with the AFL
* Congress of Industrial Organization
CNN
* Cable News Network
CORE
* acronym for civil rights organization that was founded in Chicago in 1942 by Farmer, Houser & Rustin; originally it stood for
Committee On Racial Equality; later it was renamed the Congress Of Racial Equality
CREEP
* Committee to Re-Elect the Preisdent; Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election committee; up to their eyeballs in Watergate
DDT
* a chemical compound (pesticide) whose full name is dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane
ENIAC early electronic computer (1945)
* Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
FBI
* the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the main US government police agency
FCC
* Federal Communications Commission
FDIC
* United States government agency --- the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation --- it insures bank deposits
fwiw
* abbreviation for for what its worth
GE
* General Electric Corp.
GPS
* Global Positioning System; originally a military-only satellite locator system
HEMA
* hydrogel poly-hydroxyethyl methacrylate hydrophilic hydrocarbon
HEW
* United States Government cabinet department of Health, Education and Welfare
IBM
* International Business Machine Corporation
IRA
* Irish Republican Army; Catholic terrorist organization in Norther Ireland
KGB
* Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti Committee for State Security, USSR
KKK a sorry-ass collection of murderous ignorant redneck peckerwood moron crackers
* Ku Klux Klan
KLM Royal Dutch Airline
* Koninklijke Luchtvaartmaatschappij N.V. (Royal Air Transportation Company), founded 1919
LPGA
* Ladies Professional Golf Association; founded in 1950
MICR
* acronym from Magnetic Ink Character Recognition; the account information found at the bottom of checks
M.I.T.
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPAA
* Motion Picture Association of America --- the movie producer's trade association
MSG
* monosodium glutamate, the chemical food additive in Chinese food with toxic effects (flush, headache)
NAACP civil rights organization
* National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded 1909
NASA the United States' civilian space agency; created July 29, 1958
* stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASCAR
* National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing; founded February 1948
NATO
* stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military treaty group composed of the U.S., Canada, England and most of the western
European nations
NBC
* National Broadcasting Company, a division of General Electric Corp.
NFL formed August 20, 1920, in Canton, Ohio as the American Professional Football Association
* National Football League; name changed to National Football League June 24, 1922; has two conferences: AFC & NFC
NOW
* National Organization for Women
NRA
* the National Rifle Association
NRA
* the National Raquetball Association
NYC
* abbreviation for New York City
O.E.D.
* acronym for the Oxford English Dictionary
OPEC
* the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the big crude oil cartel; founded September 1960
PARC Xerox Corporation's
* Palo Alto Research Center
PBS
* Public Broadcasting System, the network of taxpayer supported television stations in the United States
PGA
* Professional Golfers' Association
PLO
* Palestine Liberation Organization
PVC
* polyvinyl chloride
QUANTAS the Australian national airline, founded in 1920
* originally Queensland and Northern Territories Aerial Services, Ltd.
Radar
* short for Radio Direction and Ranging
RCA
* Radio Corporation of America
REM
* Rapid-Eye-Movement sleep
REMF pronounced "remph"
* derogatory expletive; sanitized version: Rear Echelon Maintenance Force; original version: Rear Echelon Mother-F**ker: a soldier in
name only ... usually found at the antipodes of any conflict
RTNDA
* acronym: Radio Television News Directors' Association
SAC
* Strategic Air Command, the United States Air Force's nuclear delivery branch
SI
* Sports Illustrated magazine
SNCC
* Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNL
* "Saturday Night Live" television program
THC
* tetrahydrocanabinol, the active chemical agent in marijuana
TVA
* Tennessee Valley Authority
UAW
* United Automobile Workers union
UFO
* Unidentified Flying Object
Unabom
* acronym of formerly-anonymous terrorist; University Airline Bomber
UNCLE fictional law enforcement organization headed by Alexander Waverly
* United Network Command for Law and Enforcement
UPC
* Universal Product Code the bar codes we all know and love
UPI
* United Press International; news wire service
USIA
* United States Information Agency
WWF now the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)
* World Wrestling Federation
YMCA
* Young Men's Christian Association
ZOWIE fictional quasi-governmental organization headed by Lloyd C. Cramden
