Standards! They allow this wonderful modern world of ours possible. They have cool acronyms, fun numbers and associated thorough documents.
Only the base name of the standard is provided without the revision information.
ANSI INCITS 4 ASCII
ISO 9899 The C Programming Language
ISO 3166 Two Letter Country Codes
ISO 9945 POSIX
IEEE 1003.1 POSIX
IEEE 754 Floating Point Numbers
IEEE 802 Local Area Network
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
IEEE 802.5 Toekn Ring
IEEE 802.11 WiFi
IEEE 1394 Firewire