They love them so much that they have lots of web sites to explain what they mean. It seems that almost every government agency uses an acronym. It's not clear if the government is trying to confuse the public with all these acronyms, but they must be confusing themselves, because they have web sites all over the Internet to help their employees figure out what the heck it is they're talking about. The government even has web sites to explain acronyms just for special programs, which of course are acronyms themselves, like AMPS and IUSS . With all this acronyming going on, it just wouldn't make sense to use the ultimate geek tool, the Internet, without having a few of their own.
Computer geeks are infamous for using acronyms anyway.
If you aren't totally confused by this point, you're either a scientist, or you work with computers. That's no coincidence. It was scientists and computer wizards that started the Internet and developed the infrastructure and protocols you use today. This list focuses on acronyms used in Usenet . We also have a small list of computer acronyms , with a heavy emphasis on Internet terms, which you may refer to if you don't know the meaning of a term.