"AOL Instant Messenger" aka America On Line Instant Messenger...

Also FedEx Express: "Federal Express Express"

GNU would like a word.

Ask a PHP developer what it stands for

At least it isn't recursive.

Wine.

the list is long

Good one!! I was just trying to think of others like this.

😂 got em!

Redundant!

Wait until you find out what GNU stands for

GNU

($1 is Not Unix)

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GNU's Not Unix

If I recall AOL was changed to just be AOL like how KFC is now just KFC around when they merged with time warner

BOB

KFC Time Warner: bringing chicken to the big screen.

and the word is HURD

I always use my PIN number at the ATM machine.

Don't you know about the HURD?
Everybody knows that the HURD is the word!

Pretty Huge Programs

GIMP has a recursive acronym inside of it

GTK has has a recursive acronym inside a regular acronym inside of it

Send the message to the next clacks tower, do not log message, at the end of the line, send it back.

Air Intercept Missile

I don't see it.

ARM is Advanced RISC Machine
RISC is Reduced Instruction Set Computer

People were getting crazy with acronyms back then. Like Wine - "Wine Is Not an Emulator".

At least it ain't VHDL, which stands for VHSIC Hardware Description Language, or, in full, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language. Its name is as much of a clusterfuck as the language itself.

Acorn RISC Machine!

Better clean your hands after touching those buttons. Don’t want to catch something nasty like the HIV virus.

*Acorn RISC machine, originally.

We always just called it "very hard description language"