Seringkali kita temukan singkatan-singkatan yang biasa digunakan di forum-forum, chatting, ataupun artikel di Internet. Beberapa mungkin sudah kita kenal/tahu dengan baik.
Berikut adalah rangkuman singkatan-singkatan tersebut (dalam bahasa Inggris) yang bisa saya kumpulkan.
Spoiler for 0-9:
2 too, or to
4 For
Spoiler for A:
AFAICR/S/T As far as I can recall / remember / see / tel
AFAIK As far as I know
AFK Away from keyboard
ANFSCD And Now For Something Completely Different. Used to change the subject of conversation.
ASAP As soon as possible
ASL Age / sex / location
ATEOTD At The End of the Day
ATM At the moment
AWOL Absent Without (Official) Leave
AYBABTU (also abbreviated as AYB) All your base are belong to us (from the video game Zero Wing)
Spoiler for B:
B2B Business to Business
B& and/or B7- Banned
BBIAB Be back in a bit
BBL/S Be back later / shortly / soon
BCNU Be seein you
Blog Also known as web log or an online journal
BOFH ~censored~ operator from hell
Bot Any type of automated software in chatrooms and web-cataloging software
BRB Be right back
BSOD Blue Screen of Death
BTDT Been there done that
BTW By the way
Bump Increment (For example, Cs ++ operator.)or a backronym for Bring Up My Post
Spoiler for C:
Crawl To retrieve a web page along with the hyperlinks that reference it
Crapplet A poorly written computer application
CU See you (later)
CYA See ya OR Cover Your Ass
Cyber (prefix) A term used to connect the subsequent word loosely to the world of computers or the Internet or sex over a computer
Cyberspace Virtual reality, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and other kinds of computer systems. Science fiction author William Gibson popularized the term in his novel Neuromancer. Gibson used the word to describe a virtual world of computer networks that his cyberpunk heroes jacked into
Spoiler for D:
DFTT Dont feed the trolls
DGAF Dont Give A ~censored~
DIAF Die in a fire
DILLIGAF/D/S Does it look like I give a flip / ~censored~ / damn / ~love~
DND Do not disturb
DOA Dead on arrival. Refers to hardware that is broken on delivery.
Spoiler for E:
EOF End Of File
EOM End of Message
EOL End of Life. Device or hardware that is at the end of its product life cycle.
EQ EverQuest
ETA Estimated time of arrival
Spoiler for F:
FAQ Frequently Asked Question(s)
FFS For ~censored~s sake
Flamer Someone who makes inflammatory, abusive or directly offensive comments. Similar to, but not quite the same as an Internet troll[3]
FMCDH From My Cold Dead Hands
FOAD ~censored~ off and die
FOAF Friend of a friend
FTL For the loss
FTW For the win
FU ~censored~ you
FUBAR ~censored~ up beyond all recognition / repair (from military slang; pronounced foo-bar)
FUD Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (the purposeful spread of misinformation)
FWIW For what its worth
FYI For your information
Spoiler for G:
GBTW Get back to work
GF Great/good fight/girlfriend
GFU Good for you
GFY Go ~censored~ yourself
GG Good game, used at or near the conclusion of a gaming match
GJ Good job, often used in online gaming when a teammate performs an act benefitting his team, such as killing an opponent or enabling that kill
GMTA Great minds think alike
Godwins Law Dictates that the longer a thread, the more likely someone will post a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler
Gratz Congratulations
GTFO Get the ~censored~ out
GTG or G2G Got to go or Good to go
GR -Good Race
GR8 Great
Spoiler for H:
HAND Have A Nice Day
Handle Name used in online chat, (AKA nick(name), alias, screen/user name)
HF Have fun
Haxor or H4x0r (1337) Hacker
Hit A request made to the web server, (noun) the results of an internet search, (verb) loading a Web page. Hits are not equivalent to visitors of a webpage.
Home page The websites introduction page, starting point, and guide. The technical term is index
Hot list A collection of publicly available URLs (World Wide Web site addresses), sometimes available as text files.
HTH Hope this / that helps
H8 Hate
Spoiler for I:
IANAL I am not a lawyer
IBTL In before the lock
IDC I dont care
IDK I dont know
IIRC If I recall / remember correctly
IIUC If I understand correctly
IMO/IMHO/IMNSHO/IMAO In my (humble / honest / not so humble / arrogant) opinion
Information superhighway The Internet (AKA: I-way, infobahn)
IONO I dont know
IOW In other words
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRL In real life
ITYM I Think You Mean
IWSN I want sex now
IYKWIM If you know what I mean
Spoiler for J:
Jaggy Aliased computer graphics
JK or j/k Just kidding, or joke
JFGI Just ~censored~/Freaking Google It
Spoiler for K:
k or kk OK
KISS Keep it simple stupid.
KS(ing) Kill-Steal(ing)
KOS Kill on sight
KTHX OK, thanks
KTHXBAI or KTHXBYE OK, thanks, goodbye, used either to cut short a conversation or to express displeasure with being cut short
Spoiler for L:
L2P Learn to play; an admonishment to MMORPG players who are incompetent and/or whine
L8R Later, L8R also sometimes abbreviated as L8ER is commonly used in chat rooms and other text based communications as a way of saying good bye.
Lag Slang term for slow Internet speeds or high Internet latency; Lag is sometimes due to a server problem, but more frequently due to the connection between client and server. A slow or intermittent connection may often be referred to as laggy
Lamer A know-nothing, one who is lame.
Leet Often spelled as l33t or 1337 in ASCII form. It originally meant elite
LFG Looking for group
LFM Looking for more
LM(F)AO Laughing my (frigging) ass off
LMIRL Lets meet in real life.
LMK Let me know
LOL Laughing out loud, laugh out loud
LTNS Long time no see
Lurker Someone who frequents a Usenet group without participating in discussions
Spoiler for M:
MMORPG, MMO Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game
MMOFPS Massive Multi-player Online First Person Shooter
MOTD Message of the day
MS MapleStory, an MMORPG
MTFBWY May The Force be with you
MUD Multi-User Dungeon
MUSH Multi-User Shared Hallucination
MYOB Mind your own business
M8 Mate
Spoiler for N:
NE1 Anyone
NFI No ~censored~ Idea
Newbie, noob, or n00b An inexperienced user of a system or game,or an annoying person.
NIFOC Naked In Front Of Computer
NM (Sometimes written N/M) Not much, Never mind or no message, used on message boards or in e-mails to indicate that everything is already said in the subject line.
NP No problem
NSFW Not safe for work. Warning about content that may get the viewer in trouble with his employer or co-workers.
NVM, NVMD, or nm Nevermind, not much
Spoiler for O:
O RLY Oh really?
OIC Oh, I see
OFN Old ~censored~ news
OMG Oh my god
OMFG Oh my ~censored~ god
OMW On my way or Oh my word
OP Original poster / Operator / Outpost
OS Operating system
OT Off topic
OTOH On the other hand
OTP On the phone or One true pairing
Spoiler for P:
P2P Peer to peer, or pay to play
PAW Parents are watching
PEBKAC/PEBCAK Problem exists between keyboard and chair
Ping From the popular network monitoring tool, used as a greeting similar to Are you there?.
PITA Pain in the arse / ass
PLMK Please let me know
PM Private Message
PMSL Pissing myself laughing
POS Piece of ~love~, or parent over shoulder.
POTS Plain old telephone service
POV Point of view
PPL People
PTKFGS Punch the Keys For Gods Sake
pr0n Intentional misspelling of porn
PW Persistent World (gaming)
pwned Intentional misspelling of owned