c/showerthoughts · by unitedwithme@lemmy.today · 10dFunny how AIM was an acronym inside of an acronym "AOL Instant Messenger" aka America On Line Instant Messenger... 106 points · 32 comments · view on lemmy.world
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BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 10d
At least it isn't recursive.
Wine.
prex@aussie.zone · 22 pts · 10d
the list is long
Skyline969@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 10d
GNU
morto@piefed.social · 12 pts · 10d
GIMP has a recursive acronym inside of it
mschae@discuss.mschae23.de · 12 pts · 10d
GTK has has a recursive acronym inside a regular acronym inside of it
Klear@piefed.world · 2 pts · 10d
BOB
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 26 pts · 10d
Wait until you find out what GNU stands for
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 10d
($1 is Not Unix)
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d
Send the message to the next clacks tower, do not log message, at the end of the line, send it back.
YaksDC@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 10d
diarcesia@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 10d
Also FedEx Express: "Federal Express Express"
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 10d
I always use my PIN number at the ATM machine.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 9d
Better clean your hands after touching those buttons. Don’t want to catch something nasty like the HIV virus.
unitedwithme@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 10d
Good one!! I was just trying to think of others like this.
Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 10d
Redundant!
Sibshops@feddit.cl · 14 pts · 10d
GNU would like a word.
jdr@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 10d
and the word is HURD
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 10d
Don't you know about the HURD? Everybody knows that the HURD is the word!
redparadise@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 10d
GNU's Not Unix
unitedwithme@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 10d
😂 got em!
Randelung@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 10d
ARM is Advanced RISC Machine
RISC is Reduced Instruction Set Computer
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 9d
Acorn RISC Machine!
Pat@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 9d
*Acorn RISC machine, originally.
northernlights@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 10d
People were getting crazy with acronyms back then. Like Wine - "Wine Is Not an Emulator".
aaaa@piefed.world · 8 pts · 10d
Ask a PHP developer what it stands for
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 10d
Personal Home Page
morto@piefed.social · 2 pts · 10d
Pretty Huge Programs
agentTeiko@piefed.social · 7 pts · 10d
If I recall AOL was changed to just be AOL like how KFC is now just KFC around when they merged with time warner
Hupf@feddit.org · 13 pts · 10d
KFC Time Warner: bringing chicken to the big screen.
0x30507DE@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 10d
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.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 9d
We always just called it "very hard description language"
remon@ani.social · 6 pts · 10d
I don't see it.