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===Examples=== {{Div col|colwidth=40em}} * [[Allegro library|Allegro]]: Allegro Low LEvel Game ROutines (early versions for Atari ST were called "Atari Low Level Game Routines") * [[AROS]]: AROS Research Operating System (originally Amiga Research Operating System) * [[ATI Technologies|ATI]]: ATI Technologies Inc. * [[Bird Internet routing daemon|BIRD]]: BIRD Internet Routing Daemon * [[Cave Automatic Virtual Environment|CAVE]]: CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment * [[cURL]]: Curl URL Request Library<ref>{{cite web |url=http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/03/20/curl-17-years-old-today/ |title=curl, 17 years old today |last1=Stenberg |first1=Daniel |date=20 March 2015 |website=daniel.haxx.se |access-date=20 March 2015 |archive-date=6 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151206014340/http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/03/20/curl-17-years-old-today/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Darcs]]: Darcs Advanced Revision Control System * [[EINE]]: EINE Is Not Emacs * [[FIJI (software)|FIJI]]: FIJI Is Just [[ImageJ]] * [[Ginac computer algebra system|GiNaC]]: GiNaC is Not a CAS (Computer Algebra System) * [[GNE (encyclopedia)]]: GNE's Not Encyclopedia * [[GNU]]: GNU's Not Unix * [[GPE Palmtop Environment|GPE]]: GPE Palmtop Environment * [[gRPC]]: grpc Remote Procedure Calls * [[JACK Audio Connection Kit|JACK]]: JACK Audio Connection Kit * [[KGS Go Server|KGS]]: KGS Go Server * [[LAME]]: LAME Ain't [[MP3]] Encoder<ref name="lame">{{cite web | url = http://lame.sourceforge.net/about.php | title = About LAME | access-date = 2016-02-20 | archive-date = 12 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160212163532/http://lame.sourceforge.net/about.php | url-status = live }}</ref> * [[LiVES]]: LiVES is Video Editing System * MINDY: MINDY Is Not [[Dylan (programming language)|Dylan]] Yet * [[MiNT]]: MiNT is Not TOS (later changed to "MiNT is Now TOS") * [[Freemacs|MINT]]: MINT Is Not [[TRAC (programming language)|TRAC]] * [[Mung (computer term)|Mung]]: Mung Until No Good<ref name="mung">{{cite web|url= http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/mung.html|title= The Jargon File: Mung|access-date= 2007-10-15|archive-date= 15 June 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150615165058/http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/mung.html|url-status= live}}</ref> * [[Nagios]]: Nagios Ain't Gonna Insist On Sainthood (a reference to the previous name of Nagios, "Netsaint"; ''agios'' [αγιος] is the Greek word for "saint") * [[NiL]]: NiL Isn't Liero * [[Ninja-ide]]: Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE * [[PHP]]: PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (from "Personal Home Page Tools", more frequently referenced as "PHP Tools."<ref name="History of PHP">{{cite web|title=History of PHP|url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php.php|publisher=php.net|access-date=18 June 2013|archive-date=2 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702191556/http://php.net/manual/en/history.php.php|url-status=live}}</ref>) * [[Pine (e-mail client)|PINE]]: PINE Is Nearly [[Elm (e-mail client)|Elm]], originally; PINE now officially stands for "Pine Internet News E-mail"<ref name="pine-origins">{{ cite web | url = http://www.island-resort.com/pine.htm | title = What Pine Really Stands For | access-date = 2007-03-06 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607212819/http://www.island-resort.com/pine.htm | archive-date = 2011-06-07 }}</ref> * [[Pip (Python)|PIP]]: PIP Installs Packages * [[P.I.P.S.]]: P.I.P.S. Is POSIX Symbian * [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]]: officially "Portable Network Graphics", but unofficially "PNG's not GIF".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Web Review: PNG's NOT GIF!|url=https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webrevu/1997/05_09/designers/05_09_97_1.html|access-date=2021-11-24|website=people.apache.org|first=Greg|last=Roelofs|archive-date=30 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220330031000/https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webrevu/1997/05_09/designers/05_09_97_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[RPM Package Manager|RPM]]: RPM Package Manager * [[SPARQL]]: SPARQL Protocol And RDF Query Language * [[PGF/TikZ|TikZ]]: TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm (German; TikZ is not a drawing program) * [[:fr:TiLP|TiLP]]: TiLP is Linking Program * [[GNU nano#History|TIP]]: TIP isn't [[Pico (text editor)|Pico]] * [[TRESOR]]: TRESOR Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM * [[UIRA#UIRA|UIRA]]: UIRA Isn't Recursive Acronym * [[Wine (software)|WINE]]: WINE Is Not Emulator<ref name="wine">{{cite web|url=http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8b4fbbe473bd0d51d936bcf298f5b7f0e8d25f2e|title=FAQ—The Official Wine Wiki|access-date=2009-01-16|archive-date=24 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224080708/https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8b4fbbe473bd0d51d936bcf298f5b7f0e8d25f2e|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=August 2024}} * [[XAMPP]]: XAMPP Apache MariaDB PHP Perl * [[XBMC]]: XBMC Media Center (originally Xbox Media Center) * [[XINU]]: XINU Is Not Unix * [[Microsoft XNA|XNA]]: XNA's Not Acronym'd * [[YAML]]: YAML Ain't Markup Language (initially "Yet Another Markup Language") * [[YARA]]: Yara: Another Recursive Acronym * [[Zinf]]: Zinf Is Not FreeAmp * [[ZWEI]]: ZWEI Was EINE Initially ("eine" and "zwei" are German for "one" and "two" respectively) {{Div col end}}
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