Acronyms abound. WTF? "WTF" = Welcome to Finland.

There is no doubt that we live in a high-tech world where everything is constantly getting faster. If you're over 40, like me (sigh), you may remember a time before emails. There was a time when people actually wrote by hand and mailed letters to one another to communicate. It was a romantic and personal way to communicate, but glacially slow.

Today we communicate via email and text messages. (Some of us still talk on the phone.) With this warp speed improvement in communications, our writing has become little more than acronyms and abbreviations. (Gr8.) Personally, I don't mind the abbreviations so much when being informal. However, it can be confusing at times. For instance, take the title of this post. In the not so distant past, a friend of mine handed me a magazine titled, WTF. I thought the same thing you just did. He explained to me that he just returned from Finland and the title was an acronym for, "Welcome to Finland." With that explanation, he handed me a can of reindeer meat. It was then I thought, "WTF?"

The Price.

Networking software and application monitoring software are replete with acronyms and abbreviations. It's a virtual language unto itself! Do you know this language well? If you know nothing about networking, SolarWinds software, or computers, the following exchange would be meaningless:

Hey Bill, can I FTP the RFP to the DoD, or should I just ZIP it and use the IPSec MPLS?

Well, it is up to you, but the MFIC has made it clear that SOP requires CESA approved methods, and by the way I think the ACLs are FUBAR anyway. LOL, TTYL.

The SolarWinds Acronym Dictionary:

Below is a list of the more common acronyms. Following this list is a link to a more complete acronym table.

The list is virtually endless. To see a more complete list of such acronyms, check out this Wikipedia article.