Newbie

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Newbie (also said as nooby or newby) is a slang term for a newcomer to online gaming or an Internet activity. It can also be used for any other activity in whose context a somewhat clueless newcomer could exist. It can have derogatory connotations, but is also often used for descriptive purposes only, without a value judgement.citation needed

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History

The word newbie is a variant of 'new boy' and comes from British public school and military slangcitation needed.

Before it entered popular discourse by way of the Internet, the term "newbie" had a limited usage among U.S. troops in the Vietnam War as a slang term for a new man in a unit.1

Its earliest known usage on the Internet may have been on the USENET newsgroup talk.bizarre2, and was certainly in use by 19813

Variants

Coming from an oral tradition, the initial usage written either "newbie" or "newbee" (eg Los Angeles Times of August 1985: "It had to do with newbees. I could be wrong on the spelling, but newbees are the rookies among the Blue Angels...").

In internet usage the spelling "newbie" has been the norm, with some use of the shortened form "newb" (or "noob").citation needed

See also

  • FNG, another term for someone new to a unit used in the Vietnam War.

References

  1. ^ Entry for newbie in John Robert Elting, Ernest L. Deal, and Dan Cragg, A Dictionary of Soldier Talk (New York: Scribner, 1984), 209. ISBN 0684178621
  2. ^ http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/newbie.html
  3. ^ Post to comp.sys.mac in 1988

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