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The word newbie is a variant of '' 'new boy' '' and comes from British [[Public school (UK)|public school]] and military [[slang]]{{Fact|date=August 2008}}.
In the 1960s the term "newbie" also had a limited usage among U.S. troops in the [[Vietnam War]] as a slang term for a new man in a unit.<ref>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</ref>
Its earliest known usage on the Internet may have been on the [[USENET]] newsgroup [[talk.bizarre]].<ref name="esr">{{cite web|url=http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/newbie.html |title=newbie |publisher=Catb.org |date= |accessdate=2009-05-05}}</ref> The term is believed to have entered online usage by 1981.<ref>{{cite web|author=Barbara Dyker View profile More options |url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac/msg/68659de9d2d8e42d?hl=en |title=Post to ''comp.sys.mac'' in 1988 |publisher=Groups.google.com |date=1988-05-31 |accessdate=2009-05-05}}</ref>
== Variants ==
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Coming from an [[oral tradition]], the term has variant spellings, including "newbee" (e.g. 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..."'').
Internet usage of the full spelling of "newbie" has not been as widely used as shortened forms.{{Fact|date=June 2009}} A common variant, usually use more than actual word, is "n00b" or "noob", in many cases a negative term where it [[wikt:degrade|degradingly]] refers to users who disrupt other users.{{Fact|date=February 2009}} Other spellings include "newb", "nub", "nooblet", "n00blet", or any version of these written in [[Leet]]. The leet variation, n00b, with two zeros replacing the letter 'o' was accepted as a word in the English language lexicon by the [[Global Language Monitor]] on June 10, 2009. <ref> 'Noob' could be the millionth English word [http://tech.uk.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=16646244] </ref>
== See also ==
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* [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newbie Merriam Webster on Newbie]
* [http://www.languagemonitor.com/news/millionth-word-finalists-announced038 Global Language Monitor on n00b]
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