What’s a Noob?
The term noob is slang to describe someone who’s a novice or newcomer or inexperienced in a profession or activity. In more recent years, it has been used to describe someone new to computers or internet activities such as online gaming. Like similar words like newbie, newb, nub, or n00bs, noob can have derogatory connotations, depending on the context. Most times, however, noob is used for descriptive purposes without any value judgment. Technology-related, noob (or newbie) was first in the early 198os on the Usenet newsgroup, talk.bizarre. In 2000, Electronic Arts’ The Sims featured a tutorial house with a family called The Newbies. According to the Urban Dictionary,
Other Meanings and Uses
Before the age of computers, the term “newie,” was used in the United States and Australia to describe a neophyte in a place or situation. Additionally, in British public schools, the slang “new boy” or “new blood” was often used around the same time to describe someone in their first term of school. By the 1960s and 1970s, U.S. troops called a man new to a unit, newbie. A “newbee” is sometimes used as a moniker given to new U.S. Navy recruits. In 2009, noob was one of the candidates for the one-millionth English world selection by the Global Language Monitor. There are countless texting abbreviations and terms. We’ll be covering more of these here at groovyPost, so keep coming back. Those we have already covered include CU, TTYL, TL;DR, BIAB, and many more. Comment Name * Email *
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