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ewbie /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [verry common; orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A Usenet neophyte.
This term surfaced in the newsgroup talk.bizarre but i...
ewgroup wars /n[y]oo'groop worz/ n.
ewline /n[y]oo'li:n/ n. 1. [techspeak, primarily Unix] The ASCII LF character (0001010), used under Unix as a text line terminator.
Though the term `newline' appears in ASCII standard...
NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ n. [acronym
ewsfroup // n. [Usenet] Silly synonym for newsgroup, originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's talk.
bizarre, and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare hing, grilf, pr0n and fi...
ewsgroup n. [Usenet] One of Usenet's huge collection of topic groups or fora.
ick n. [IRC; very common] Short for nickname. On IRC, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes the same as the user's real name or login name, but is often more fanciful.
Compare...
ickle /ni'kl/ n. [from `nickel', common name for the U.
S. 5-cent coin] A nybble + 1; 5 bits....
ight mode n. See phase (of people).
Nightmare File System n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).

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