Newbie[a] is a slang term for a novice, newcomer, or somebody inexperienced in a given profession or activity.
In particular, it may refer to a new user of computers, and often concerns Internet activity, such as online gaming[1] or Linux use.
It may derive from "newie", which is attested in U.S. and Australian sources of the 1850s, meaning a neophyte in a place or situation; alternatively, it may derive from the British public school slang "new boy" or "new blood", which is attributed to the same era and was applied to a schoolboy in his first term.
[5] Another use of the term newbee was the moniker given to new U.S. Navy recruit students attending Basic Electricity and Electronics school by more senior students, a requisite course prior to enrollment in the A-school course at Naval Air Technical Training Center, Millington, Tennessee.
[citation needed] The earliest appearance of the term on the Internet may have been on the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre.