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Nov 10, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoobIts etymology is uncertain. It may derive from "newie", which is attested in U.S. and Australian sources of the 1850s and means a neophyte in a place or situation; alternatively, it may derive from the British public school slang "new boy", which is attributed to the same era and was applied to a schoolboy in his first term.[2]
In the 1960s–1970s 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.[3] Its earliest known usage on the Internet may have been on the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre.[4] The term is believed to have entered online usage by 1981
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Oct 13, 2009
The word can actually be traced all the way back to ancient Egyptian as a derogatory term for the people in the south who often raided and sometimes even conquered Egypt.
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Jul 9, 2009
Suddenly, I feel old. I was a newbie in online games in 1994. Shorthands and misspellings have bled their way into common usage for years. I do know that the term has been used online since at least the mid '80s... but it has trace roots that date back to the '60s describing new recruits in Vietnam as a variant of "new boy" ... etc, etc.
