Do you know your RAM from your HTML?!

Do you know your RAM from your HTML or your SSL from your MB? 

The technology world is vast and with so many acronyms now common place in business, do you know what they actually mean? Or do we just take them for granted as knowing what their definition is but not actually knowing what they stand for?

Let’s look at some of the most commonly used abbreviations.

RAM – Random Access Memory.  This allows you to run different programs at the same time at the same speed.  The more RAM you have the more you can run without programs being affected. 

iOS – Internet Operating System but according to Ken Segall the person responsible for putting i in front of Mac says it also stands for Individual Operating System and Imaginative Operating System (Source: telegraph.co.uk).

MB – 1,000,000 bytes make up a Megabyte.

SSL – Secure Sockets Layer. An SSL certificate provides an encrypted link between a web server and browser ensuring the data passed between the two remains private and secure.  You can check if a site has it as it will be identified as https which stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure as opposed to http (HyperText Transfer Protocol).

HTML – HyperText Markup Language is the language used to create documents on the web by using a variety of tags and attributes.

LAN – Local Area Network links separate devised within close proximity to each other where it’s a residence, office, school.

IRC – Internet Relay Chat provides a way of communicating via text via the web, ideally suiting large groups of users.

CPU – Central Processing Unit is the computer component responsible for controlling and carrying out instructions from the computer’s hardware and software.

SDN – Software Defined Networking, not to be confused with ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) facilitates network management and improves network performance and monitoring through programmatically efficient network configurations.

RTF – Rich Text Format.  A text file format used by Microsoft products such as Word and Office and is readable across most word processors. 

If you’re still confused and it seems like tech jargon, just get in touch! #ITsupport