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A new user of a technology, such as a computer, a certain computer program, or the Internet, is often referred to as a "newbie." The term originated sometime around 1990 and supposedly comes from the English phrase, "new boy," which refers to someone in their first year of public schooling. In online chat rooms, veteran net users like to call anybody who asks an easy question a newbie.
ComputingOne of the interchange points for Internet traffic, where various Internet network carriers and major isps exchange data. When Internet traffic origi-nates on one network and goes to another network, it almost always passes through at least one Network accesspoint, or NAP. In the United States, major naps include MAE East, in Vienna, Virginia, and MAE West, in San Jose, California; the Chicago NAP; the Pacific Bell NAP; the Digital Internet Exchange in Palo Alto, California; and the Sprint NAP in Pennsauken, New Jersey.
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