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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>newbie</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="New-Testament.html" title="New Testament"/><link rel="next" href="newgroup-wars.html" title="newgroup wars"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">newbie</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="New-Testament.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="newgroup-wars.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="newbie"/><dt xmlns="" id="newbie"><b>newbie</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/n[y]oo´bee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common; orig. from British public-school and military slang
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variant of ‘new boy’] A Usenet neophyte. This term surfaced in
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the <a href="newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a> <tt class="systemitem">talk.bizarre</tt> but is now in wide use (the
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combination “<span class="quote">clueless newbie</span>” is especially common). Criteria
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for being considered a newbie vary wildly; a person can be called a newbie
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in one newsgroup while remaining a respected regular in another. The label
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<span class="firstterm">newbie</span> is sometimes applied as a
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serious insult to a person who has been around Usenet for a long time but
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who carefully hides all evidence of having a clue. See
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<a href="../B/B1FF.html"><i class="glossterm">B1FF</i></a>; see also <a href="../G/gnubie.html"><i class="glossterm">gnubie</i></a>.
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Compare <a href="../C/chainik.html"><i class="glossterm">chainik</i></a>,
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