HTML - HyperText Markup Language: The standard language for creating web pages, using tags to structure content.

 

HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol: The foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, used for transmitting hypermedia documents.

 

HTTPS - HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure: An extension of HTTP, used for secure communication over a computer network within a web browser.

 

URL - Uniform Resource Locator: The address of a web page on the internet, specifying its location on a computer network.

 

API - Application Programming Interface: A set of rules and definitions for building and interacting with software applications, facilitating communication between different software components.

 

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets: A style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML, controlling layout and appearance.

 

SEO - Search Engine Optimization: The practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results.

 

SSL - Secure Sockets Layer: A standard security protocol for establishing encrypted links between a web server and a browser, ensuring that all data passed remains private.

 

TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol: A suite of communication protocols used to interconnect network devices on the internet, ensuring the delivery of packets.

 

XML - eXtensible Markup Language: A markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

 

AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML: A group of web development techniques using various web technologies on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications.

 

JSON - JavaScript Object Notation: A lightweight data-interchange format, easy for humans to read and write and for machines to parse and generate.

 

PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor: A popular general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development and embedded into HTML.

 

CMS - Content Management System: A software application used to manage the creation and modification of digital content, often used for web content management.

 

VPN - Virtual Private Network: A service that allows you to connect to the internet via a server run by a VPN provider, encrypting your data and hiding your IP address.

 

SaaS - Software as a Service: A software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet.

 

UX - User Experience: The overall experience of a person using a product such as a website or computer application, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use.

 

UI - User Interface: The space where interactions between humans and machines occur, with the goal of effective operation and control of the machine from the human end.

 

FTP - File Transfer Protocol: A standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.

 

DNS - Domain Name System: The phonebook of the internet, translating domain names to IP addresses so browsers can load internet resources.

LAN - Local Area Network: A network that connects computers and devices in a limited geographical area such as a home, school, or office building.

 

WAN - Wide Area Network: A telecommunications network that extends over a large geographical area for the primary purpose of computer networking.

 

ISP - Internet Service Provider: A company that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.

 

IP - Internet Protocol: The principal communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries.

 

POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3: A standard mail protocol used to retrieve emails from a remote server to a local client over an IP connection.

 

SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: An Internet standard for email transmission across IP networks.

 

SSH - Secure Shell: A cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.

 

NAT - Network Address Translation: A method of remapping one IP address space into another by modifying network address information in the IP header of packets while they are in transit across a traffic routing device.

 

IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service: Online services that provide high-level APIs used to dereference various low-level details of underlying network infrastructure like physical computing resources, location, data partitioning, scaling, security, backup, etc.

 

PaaS - Platform as a Service: A category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.

 

VPS - Virtual Private Server: A virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. It runs its own copy of an operating system, and customers have superuser-level access to that operating system instance.

 

RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks: A data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into one or more logical units for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both.

 

BIOS - Basic Input/Output System: Firmware used to perform hardware initialization during the booting process and to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs.

 

RAM - Random Access Memory: A form of computer data storage that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

 

SSD - Solid State Drive: A solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory.

 

GPU - Graphics Processing Unit: A specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.

 

CAD - Computer-Aided Design: The use of computers to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.

 

CRM - Customer Relationship Management: An approach to manage a company's interaction with current and potential customers, using data analysis about customers' history with a company to improve business relationships, specifically focusing on customer retention and ultimately driving sales growth.

 

ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning: A type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management and compliance, and supply chain operations.

 

IoT - Internet of Things: The network of physical objects—devices, vehicles, buildings, and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity to enable these objects to connect and exchange data