Computer jargon and acronyms can make you feel like you are wading through a bowl of alphabet soup. It is tough for the average person to find their way through all the abbreviations and terms dotting the web, email, and chat. Glossaries and dictionaries are the perfect tools to help navigate your way through the web of computer lingo. Look to the following list to find definitions for tthe computer terms and jargon that are troubling you.

• Beginner's Web Glossary This is a short rudimentary web glossary from the IT Services Department of Case Western Reserve University. Just fine for beginners,

• Computer Glossary CNET's "Netify Your Vocabulary" glossary. Just click on the alphabet letter and a list will come up, then click on the desired term.

• Computer Hope Dictionary listing over 6,000 definitions and terms. Searchable database.

• Computer Internet Glossary Cross-functional glossary that is more than a cursory look at the computer term.

• Definitions and Lingo Links to email, messaging, acronyms, applications, spyware, and other Internet definitions. Also links to industry specific dictionaries other than computer.

• Dictionary of Computer Abbreviations A teacher's site that lists over 5,000 computer terms including the latest terms.

• HTML Tag Glossary Lists definitions, basic, document, text formatting, graphic formatting, frame, and linking tags as well as how they are used. Also a section on list creation tags as well as Hexidecimal Color Codes.

• Internet Acronyms Dictionary Basic chat and email acronym list.

• Internet and Web Jargon Glossary Part of a tutorial from UC Berkeley regarding finding information on the Internet. Not a cursory list.

• Jargon Glossary Four-section glossary in table format designed to eliminate the "gibberish" of computers.

• Java Glossary This programming language is so intertwined with the Internet, that not to include its glossary of terms would be remiss.

• Linux Dictionary Arguably the largest open-source jargon dictionary on the Web with over 24,000 definitions over 2,000 pages long. This is an ongoing project as new terms are being added as open source continues to be an integral part of Web programming.

• Multi-Language Computer Glossary Computer jargon in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese via web page translation using Yahoo! Babel Fish.

• Online Computing Dictionary Everything "computing" including acronyms, jargon, architecture, tools, programming, operating systems, standards, theory and more. Extensive and search-able.

• Programming Glossary A very basic programming glossary.

• Social Networking and Chat Acronyms Understand computer alphabet soup? LOL, B4N (That's short for "Laughing Out Loud" and "Bye for now.")

• SPAM Glossary Understand what all the inundation is about with terms such as Address Harvester and Alias.

• Technology Glossary Comprehensive listing of terms, acronyms, and definitions.