This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — If you think you are tech savvy all ...

AFK means "away from keyboard" in typing shorthand. Its meaning can be literal or it can simply indicate that you aren't online. AFK is a helpful phrase for communal online spaces, when you want a ...

This summer, the acronym LOL has gone out of style amongst Gen-Z-ers and has been replaced in popularity by IJBOL, which stands for “I just burst out laughing”. With social media users crowning it as ...

Do you know what TCP/IP means? (Hint: You’re using it right now.) What about CDMA? Or GPT? While the concepts and execution of these technologies are clear to most of us who have been on the internet ...

People use acronyms to save time writing, but sometimes these verbal shortcuts waste readers’ time by forcing them to look up their meaning. A new study by social media education company How Sociable ...

For the sake of this story, I'd like to invent a new acronym: IAVS, which means, "I am very sorry." The reason for the apology stems from a story I wrote last year, "28 Internet acronyms every parent ...

Hey, we're Rhett and Link from Good Mythical Morning. And we're about to define some internet acronyms. their self worth in helping others on the internet. TL apostrophe DR, too long, didn't read.

The Internet is rife with various acronyms and complex slangs. This article will help parents decode the meaning to most of them. Acronyms are widely popular across the Internet, especially on social ...