| COBOL | Cruddy Obsolete Boring Old Language |
| BASIC | Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control |
| EMACS | Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
Eight Megs And Continually Swapping |
| ISDN | It Still Does Nothing |
| JPEG | Joyful Pictures of Exposed Genitals |
| MPEG | Motion Prediction by Educated Guessing |
| SCSI | System Can't See It |
| DOS | Defunct Operating System |
| IBM | I Blame Microsoft |
| DEC | Do Expect Cuts |
| CD-ROM | Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months |
| OS/2 | Obsolete Soon, Too. |
| WWW | World Wide Wait |
| APPLE | Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity |
| MACINTOSH | Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs |
| PCMCIA | People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms |
