"AOL Instant Messenger" aka America On Line Instant Messenger...

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[–] 37 points 2 months ago (5 children)

At least it isn't recursive.

Wine.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Also FedEx Express: "Federal Express Express"

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    People were getting crazy with acronyms back then. Like Wine - "Wine Is Not an Emulator".

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    ARM is Advanced RISC Machine
    RISC is Reduced Instruction Set Computer

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Ask a PHP developer what it stands for

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    If I recall AOL was changed to just be AOL like how KFC is now just KFC around when they merged with time warner

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    At least it ain't VHDL, which stands for VHSIC Hardware Description Language, or, in full, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language. Its name is as much of a clusterfuck as the language itself.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Air Intercept Missile

    I don't see it.

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