Abk. Abkrzung ADN Any day now AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned AFAIK As Far As I Know AFK Away From Keyboard AISI As I See It aka also known as AMF Goodbye (Adios Mother-......) ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor ASAFP As Soon As Friggin' Possible ASAP As Soon As Possible AWGTHTGTATA Are We Going To Have To Go Through ALL This Again? AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again? B4 Before BBIAB Be Back In A Bit BBL Be Back Later BBS Bulletin Board System BCNU Be Seeing You BNF Backus-Naur-Form BNF Big Name Fan BOT Back On Topic BTW By The Way BTWBO Be There With Bells On bzgl. bezglich bzw. beziehungsweise CIAO Goodbye (Italian) CPP C plus plus CPU Central Processor Unit CRT Cathode Ray Tube CU See You CUL See You Later CUL8R See You Later CWYL Chat With You Later DDD Direct Distance Dial (as in the phone system) DIIK Damned if I know DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Darn?! DV DesqView EBNF extended Backus-Naur-Form evtl. eventuell FD Floppy Disk FD FrontDoor FDC Floppy Drive Controller FDD Floppy Disk Drive FITB Fill In The Blank.... FROPPED F..king dROPPED FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet FTL Faster Than Light FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Repair FUBB Fouled Up Beyond Belief FWIW For What It's Worth FYBITS F..k You, Buddy, I'm The Sysop FYI For Your Information FYI For Your Information GD&R Grinning, ducking & running ggf. gegebenenfalls GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That GNU gnu not unix GROK As in "I GROK" means thorough understanding. GUI graphical user interface HAK Hugs And Kisses HD Hard Disk HDC Hard Disk Controller HDD Hard Disk Drive HHO 1/2 K Ha, Ha, Only Half Kidding HHOK Ha, Ha, Only Kidding HTH Hope this Helps! HUA Heads Up, Ace i.a. im allgemeinen IAC In Any Case IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer IBTD I Beg To Differ IC I See IITYWIMWYBMAD If I Tell You What It Means Will You Buy Me A Drink? IITYWTMWYKM If I Tell You What This Means Will You Kiss Me? IIWM If It Were Me (Mine) ILSHIBAMF I Laughed So Hard I Broke All My Furniture! IMHO In My Humble Opinion IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion IMO In My Opinion INPO In No Particular Order IOW In Other Words ISR interrupt service routine JSNM Just Stark Naked Magic KBD Keyboard KISS Keep It Simple, Stupid L8R Later LAB&TYD Life's A Bitch & Then You Die. LD Long Distance LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous (or Thundering) Applause LOL Laughing Out Loud lsg L”sung LTIP Laughing Til' I Puke MC Machine Code MSC Microsoft C Msg Message MTBF Mean Time Between Failure MTFBWY May The Force Be With You n/a not applicable NBFD No Big F...ing Deal NFI No Friggin' Idea NFW No Friggin' Way!! NINO No Input, No Output OATUS On A Totally Unrelated Subject OAUS On An Unrelated Subject OBTW Oh, By The Way OFTPATHIRIO Oh F..k This Place And The Horse It Rode In On! OIC Oh, I See ONNA Oh No, Not Again ONNTA Oh No, Not This Again OOTC Obligatory On-Topic Comment OP Operator OTOH On The Other Hand OTOOH On The Other Other Hand OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head OWTTE Or Words To That Effect OZ Australia PFM Pure F...ing Magic PITA Pain In The Arse PMIGBOM Put Mind In Gear, Before Opening Mouth POTS Plain Old Telephone Service POV Point Of View PPP Petty Pet Peeve Prgm Program PS postscript / post scriptum QP Quick Pascal ROFL Rolling On Floor Laughing! ROFLASTC Rolling On Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat! ROFLGO Rolling On Floor Laughing Guts Out! ROFLMAO Rolling On Floor Laughing My A.. Off ROTF Rolling On The Floor ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing RSN Real Soon Now RTFM Read The F...ing Manual! RTFM Read The Farging Manual! RTFM Read The Fershlugginer Manual! RTFM Read The Flaming Manual! RTFM Read The Freaking Manual! RTFM Read The Friggin' Manual! RTFMA Read The Friggin' Manual, Again RTL Run Time Library RTWFQ Read The Whole Friggin' Question (a pers TRIV fave) RYFM Read Your Friggin' Manual! RYS Read Your Screen SAPFU Surpassing All Previous 'Foul' Ups SF Science Fiction or Speculative Fantasy SICS Sitting In Chair Snickering SNAFU Situation Normal, All F...ed Up SNAFU Situation Normal, All Fouled Up SnailMail The U.S. Postal Service SOL S... Out Of Luck SWAG Super Wild A.. Guess SYSOP System Operator TANJ There Ain't No Justice TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TARFU Things Are _Really_ Fouled Up THANX Thanks TNX Thanks TOT Turbo Object Toolkit, Nachfolger von TTT TP Turbo-Pascal TPTB The Powers That Be TSR Terminate and Stay Resident TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge TTFN Ta Ta For Now TTT Technojocks Turbo Toolkit TTUL Talk To You Later TTYAWFN Talk To You A While From Now TTYL Talk To You Later TV Turbo-Vision TYCLO Turn Your CAPS LOCK Off (Quit Shouting) UAE Unrecoverable Application Error (windows) WAG Wild A.. Guess WNOHGB Where No One Has Gone Before WT Without Thinking WTF What the F... WTTM Without Thinking Too Much WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get