Newbie

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]}

History

The word newbie is a variant of 'new boy' and comes from British public school and military slang^{[citation 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.bizarre^[2], and was certainly in use by 1981^[3]

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".^{[citation needed]}

Game definition of Noob

Noob

BURLO

The game definition of noob (variant spelling, n00b) is usually someone (mainly burlo), often in online games who acts in offensive ways to other users or people that surround them and refuse to go away, or stay by any other methods for the sole purpose of annoying others. The word noob can also mean in an online game someone who did something stupid, or asked an obvious question. For example, if someone asks a question answered in the FAQ or is common knowledge, others will call that person a noob. The word derive from the word 'newbie' and 'boob'. In which the former word means a new players, and the latter word means an idiot.

Newb

Newb is also considered a relatively new person to a game that is inexperienced and doesn't know what they are doing. This term is often addressed as newb (Newbie). However, in recent times this term is infrequently used and has been widely accepted as being replaced by noob.

References

^ 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
^ http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/newbie.html
^ Post to comp.sys.mac in 1988

External links

[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

[esr-2] ttp://catb.org/jargon/html/N/newbie.html

[3] Post to comp.sys.mac in 1988

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