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| Other terms relating to 'public': |
| BUSKING | Playing music in public for money |
| CAPTCHA | Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart |
| EXPO | Exposition, large-scale public exhibition |
| GPL | General Public License |
| IOKIYAR | It's Okay If You're A Republican |
| IPO | Initial Public Offering |
| IRA | Irish Republican Army |
| KOTOR | Knights Of The Old Republic (Game) |
| LOCAL | Local public house, bar |
| NPR | National Public Radio
No Purchase Required |
| PBS | Public Broadcasting Service |
| PD | Public Domain |
| PDEA | Public Display of Elderly Affection |
| PDOA | Public Display Of Affection |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PLC | Public Limited Company |
| PR | Public Relations |
| PRO BONO | For (public) good (Latin) |
| PSA | Publice Service Announcement |
| PUB | Public house, bar |
| PUV | Public Utility Vehicle |
| RINO | Republican In Name Only |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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| Other terms relating to 'telephone': |
| AT&T | American Telephone & Telegraph |
| DIGITS | Telephone number |
| DOG | Telephone
Ugly person |
| RTO | Radio Telephone Operator |
| SKYPE | Internet telephone |
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| Other terms relating to 'network': |
| .NET | Top level domain originally for network providers |
| 3G | Third Generation mobile phone network |
| ADMIN | Administrator on forum, network etc |
| ARPANET | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (early internet) |
| BEBO | A social networking site |
| CCNA | Cisco Certified Network Associate |
| CNN | Cable News Network |
| DDOS | Distributed Denial of Service (network attack) |
| ESPN | Entertainment and Sports Programming Network |
| HI5 | Social networking site |
| HNOS | Home Network Operating System |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| MNC | Mobile Network Code |
| MSDN | Microsoft Developer Network |
| MSN | Microsoft Network |
| MYSPACE | A social networking site |
| NAS | Network Attached Storage |
| NETWORK | Two or more connected computers |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| ORKUT | Google's social network |
| PAN | Personal Area Network |
| PEER TO PEER | Computer network without a central server |
| PSN | Playstation Network |
| SNC | Social Network Check |
| TTL | Thank The Lord
Time To Live (network cache) |
| TWITTER | A social networking site |
| VNC | Virtual Network Computing |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
