Post #73492 by Futura Girl on Thu, Jan 29, 2004 9:58 PM

the term "newbie" has been along for as long as there has been an internet community. i remember it being used in the 1990s. It's usually not considered derrogatory by the mainstream (or at least not in my experience).

You're a newbie until you're not.

That is once you feel you got the hang of a site, a chat room, a message board, coding, webmastering or whatever you're endeavoring to do - you're no longer a newbie.