Here you can find all the news concerning the Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive, from the most to the least recent.
- July 21, 2000: New server
- During these days, the acronyms database has been moved onto a more powerful server. This led to some service availability hiccups and application malfunctions. If you still experience problems, please let us know through our message submission form.
- November 4, 1999: New Questions and answers page
- This new help page includes the questions asked most frequently as well as their answers. See http://acronyms.ch/Help/FAQ.html.
- November 3, 1999: New default navigation menu
- Having seen from our log files and heard from your messages that the Java 1.0 TreeView menu is hardly supported by and difficult to use with modern browser, we decided to switch the default menu type to the server-side one.
- October 12, 1999: New page describing the application
- Ever wondered what's behind The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive? Take a look at http://acronyms.ch/Description.html to find out.
- October 10, 1999: Application and database last update dates added
- At the bottom of the home page, you can now see when the application was last updated and when the last acronym was added to the database. Also, the download page has been reorganized a little.
- July 14, 1999: New acronym categories and paging system
- Since the old method that grouped the acronyms according to their first letter yielded too many acronyms for many categories, we decided to split those categories in subcategories and to add a paging system that limits the number of acronyms returned per page yet allowing the user to browse through pages.
- June 25, 1999: New menu panels
- If you experience troubles using the Java menu applet, these other menu systems may be helpful. See http://acronyms.ch/SelectMenu.html
- June 8, 1999: New PDF files layout
- The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive has grown a little bit lately, and the layout of the old files was somewhat space-consuming. Enjoy the new two-columns PDF files, more compressed yet retaining their readability.
- June 1, 1999: Own domain
- The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive got its own domain, acronyms.ch, unbinding this application from the previous web site.
- May 26, 1999: Links to other sites
- If you don't find what you are searching for, maybe these sites will help you. See http://acronyms.ch/OtherSites.html
- February 15, 1999: Letter-size PDF files added
- Due to many requests, we added PDF files suitable for printing with letter-size paper.
- June 2, 1998: PDF duplex version added
- Since the archive has grown rather large (more than 100 pages), there is now a PDF version suitable for duplex printers.
- February 14, 1998: PDF version added
- You can now download the full content of the archive, in PDF (Portable Document Format). Download instructions are at http://acronyms.ch/Asp/Download.asp.
- November 20 1997: Application launch
- The development phase is now over so we can publish the computer acronyms archive. Comments and suggestions are welcome as usual as are new acronyms.