More than most areas of life, except possibly medicine and law, technology
related communications are full of an unprecedented number of acronyms, jargon,
and terminology that is generally impenetrable to uninitiated outsiders.
However,
being basically
orderly folks, and fundamentally oriented towards
automated solutions to organizational problems, workers in the field have
also generated a number of dictionaries and guides to help with the problem,
some
of which are referenced below:
- Jargon File. One of the earliest collections
of technology terminology, first published in
1975.
- RFC's. Request For Comments documents covering Internet related terminology
are listed below:
- RFC
1983; Internet Users' Glossary; G. Malkin; 18 August 1996.
- RFC
3536; Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF
Group; P. Hoffman;
May 2003.
- Web. The following resources provide information on Internet and
technology related terms: