CIA: Computer Industry Acronyms

CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months

PCMCIA: People Can’t Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms

ISDN: It Still Does Nothing

SCSI: System Can’t See It

MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

DOS: Defunct Operating System

WINDOWS: Will Install Nee-dless Data On Whole System

OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too

PnP: Plug and Pray

IBM: I Blame Microsoft

MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

CA: Constant Acquisitions

COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language

LISP: Lots of Insipid and Stupid Parentheses

AAAAA: American Association Against Acronym Abuse