LAN Times be based in San Mateo, California. The print publication was shuttered in 1999 and lantimes.com was redirected to networkcomputing.com LAN Times LAN Times was a print and online information journal dedicated to covering issues of technology and network computing, including local area network information. The publication was headquartered in San Mateo, California, and published print journals as well as online articles from 1988 to 1999. The publication featured an online help forum for network administrators, and published a variety of books on computer networking. It was published on a biweekly basis. It was published by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. until
Acronym shortened form, such as words with the middle omitted (for example, "Rd" for "road" or "Dr" for "Doctor"), an acronym is a word formed from the first letter or first few letters of each word in a phrase (such as "sonar", created from "sound navigation and ranging"). Attestations for "" in German are known from 1921, and for "acronym" in English from 1940. Although the word "acronym" is often used to refer to any abbreviation formed from initial letters, some dictionaries and usage commentators define "acronym" to mean an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word, in contrast to an