Do You Know What These 15 Acronyms Stand For?

Here’s a list of some of the most common acronyms and what they stand for. The first few are easy to guess but as you will scroll through the list the level of difficulty increases. If you know them all, bravo! If not, welcome to the club. And hey, please tell us in the comment section how did you like it?

1. Wi-Fi

Wireless Fidelity

2. LED

Light Emitting Diode

3. USB

Universal Service Bus

4. PDF

Portable Document Format

5. SOS

Save Our Soul

Save Our Ship

6. LASER

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

7. YAHOO!

Yet Another Hierarchical Official Oracle

8. ZIP (code)

Zone Improvement Plan

9. TIME Magazine

The International Magazine of Events

10. CAPTCHA

Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

11. GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

12. SPAM

Special Processed American Meat

13. CD-ROM

Compact Disc- Read Only Memory

14. IKEA

Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd

(Founders initials and his hometown)

15. BMW

Bayerische Motoren Werke

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