What does URL stand for and where is it on your computer?
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locater (just as often called ‘Universal…’) and so what? Was anyone enlightened by that? It’s a term designed with no better purpose than to stop you from understanding.Of course I recognise that huge numbers of people don’t like that, and it’s true. It wasn’t designed to stop you understanding but it might as well have been, and certainly it did not have a better purpose.A more useful term would have been Internet Address, but where’s the kudos in coming up with an obvious expression that everyone would understand?As W Curtis Willie said it’s not on your computer; not except in the sense that your postal address is ‘on’ or ‘in’ or ‘at’ or even ‘with’ your house, or your e-mail address is ‘on’ or ‘in’ or ‘at’ or ‘with’ you… it can be seen on your computer.The URL for this page is https://www.quora.com/What-does-URL-stand-for-and-where-is-it-on-your-computer?__filter__&__nsrc__=2&__snid3__=746087203 and if it was really ‘on your computer’ it would be in the address box on your internet browser, in your browser’s history files or one or two places you can’t normally access, or one or two other places you might have specifically chosen to stash copies.That initial HTTPS:// stands for hypertext transfer protocol (secure) which, simply, combines the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) with the Secure Socket Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, TLS being an authentication and security protocol widely implemented in browsers and Web servers. Did that mean anything to Joe User?After the internet, inventing the World Wide Web won Sir Tim Berners-Lee his knighthood and even he not long afterwards admitted that with hindsight, he would never have dreamed of burdening us with unnecessary baggage like HTTPS:// for the obvious reason that most of the point of the interweb is, it works or it doesn’t; nothing before or including the slashes is needed.The same is true of ‘www.’ on most Macintosh browsers, though far too many Windows versions won’t cope without that bit.‘http://quora.com’ is a ‘domain name’, being the main part of the address.Everything after ‘.com/’ is detail… almost as though the domain name was a town name and the rest street, post-code, house or flat, etc, etc, ad nauseam…
What does I. T. stand for, as in in the computer industry?
What does I. T. stand for, and in the computer industry?It stands for “Information Technology”. It began as a buzzword replacement in the late 1970s for IMS (“Information Management Systems”), which was an early 1970s replacement for DP (“Data Processing”).All of these phrases and their abbreviations refer to the use of computers in the management of business processes.
What does “IT” stand for? I mean the job position.
Dear M. Anonymous, and now Connor Foley,The most likely meaning of “IT” would be “information technology” such as software development and coding; however, you would have to figure out if this is the correct definition, or even the correct abbreviation. Go to abbreviations.com to figure it out.For Connor: “IT” is not a job position per se; it is merely a general area of focus that deals with information and technology and usually (always?) computers. People usually say, “I’m in IT” or “I’m an IT guy,” but this does not begin to explain what they actually do. They could work on hardware or software, and their job titles will vary accordingly.The original question asked what “tt”stands for, so my answer may or may not have answered M. Anonymous’s question. Quora Content Review changed the question to “IT,” and it was later merged with one by Connor Foley.—Sarah M. 1/24/2018MERGED INTO: What does “IT” stand for? I mean the job position.ORIGINAL QUESTION: What does IT stand for?
What does P.S. really mean?
Initially PS was used by type-writers who couldn't edit the content once it was typed. Now it is becoming a fashion to use it.PS- I forgot to mention the meaning of PS is Post Scriptum (Latin for "written after") :pThank you!Dipanshu Rawal.
I keep hearing NPM doesn't stand for Node Package Manager, what does it stand for?
Taken directly from the FAQ section of NPM's documentation:Contrary to the belief of many, "npm" is not in fact an abbreviation for "Node Package Manager". It is a recursive bacronymic abbreviation for "npm is not an acronym". (If it was "ninaa", then it would be an acronym, and thus incorrectly named.)"NPM", however, is an acronym (more precisely, a capitonym) for the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. You can learn more about them at National Association of Pastoral Musicians.In software, "NPM" is a Non-Parametric Mapping utility written by Chris Rorden. You can analyze pictures of brains with it. Learn more about the (capitalized) NPM program athttp://www.cabiatl.com/mricro/npm/.The first seed that eventually grew into this flower was a bash utility named "pm", which was a shortened descendent of "pkgmakeinst", a bash function that was used to install various different things on different platforms, most often using Yahoo's yinst. If npmwas ever an acronym for anything, it was node pm or maybe new pm.So, in all seriousness, the "npm" project is named after its command-line utility, which was organically selected to be easily typed by a right-handed programmer using a US QWERTY keyboard layout, ending with the right-ring-finger in a postition to type the -key for flags and other command-line arguments. That command-line utility is always lower-case, though it starts most sentences it is a part of.