Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CSAM | Child Sexual Abuse Material |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SMB | Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications |
| VNC | Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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