| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery | |
| AFIPS | American Federation of Information Processing Societies | |
| ARC | Augmentation Research Center at SRI | |
| ARPA | Advanced Research Project Agency | |
| ASCII | American Standard for Coded Information Interchange | |
| BBN | Bolt, Beranek & Newman Inc. – the company that built the IMPs | |
| CERN | Conceil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | |
| CHI | ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction | |
| CSCW | Computer Supported Cooperative Work | |
| CSL | Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox Parc | |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube | |
| DARPA | Defence Advanced Research Project Agency | |
| DTP | Desktop Publishing | |
| EARS | Ethernet-Alto-RCG-SLOT | |
| FJCC | Fall Joint Computer Conference | |
| FLEX | Flexible Extendable | |
| FRESS | File Retrieval and Editing System | |
| GID | Graphical Input Device | |
| GREP | Global Regular Expression Print | |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface | |
| HCI | Human Computer Interaction | |
| HCIL | Human Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland | |
| HES | Hypertext Editing System | |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language | |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol | |
| IBM | International Business Machines | |
| IEEE | Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers | |
| IMP | Interface Message Processor – the router of the ARPAnet | |
| IPTO | Information Processing Techniques Office, division at ARPA | |
| IRIS | Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship at Brown University | |
| KPT | Kai’s Power Tools | |
| LAN | Local Area Network | |
| LASER | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emitation of Radiation | |
| LRG | Learning Research Group at Xerox Parc | |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| NCSA | National Center for Supercomputing Applications | |
| NLS | On-Line System | |
| OHS | Open Hypermedia System | |
| OS | Operating System | |
| OWL | Office Workstations Ltd. | |
| PARC | Xerox Palo Alto Research Center | |
| PC | Personal Computer | |
| POLOS | Parc On-Line Office System | |
| RCG | Research Character Generator | |
| SDD | Systems Development Department at Xerox | |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language | |
| SLOT | Scanning Laser Output Terminal | |
| SRI | Stanford Research Institute | |
| TIES | The Electronic Encyclopedia System (as in Hyperties) | |
| UID | globally unique identifier (of the Dexter Model) | |
| URI | Universal Resource Identifier | |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator | |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium | |
| WIMP | Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointing Device | |
| WWW | World Wide Web | |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get | |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
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