september 1, 2006 shall henceforth be known as the birthday of the word "noob"
I hereby coin a new acronym and web 2.0 term: N.O.O.B. (Never Out Of Beta)
noob
n.: a thing (typically a technology startup company or product) which seems permanently to be "in beta-test" form (more simply, "in beta").
e.g., "microsoft vista, the noob os for n00bs!"
noobish
adv.: having the quality of a noob.
e.g., "like many products of google, gmail has always been a noobish service."
please distinguish noob from n00b. any similarity is purely cosmetic, and not derivative or bacronymal. not trying to ride on n00b's coat-tails, no-siree...
i have nouned it and adverbed it (not even words themselves, ha!), but can anyone verb it, or transmogrify it into another part of speech? i'm really going out on a limb, here, folks.
i used a couple of definition lists above. when was the last time you used the dl, dt, and dd tags, hmm?
for those of you wondering, the inspiration for the phrase "never out of beta" came from the column in wired magazine called "just out of beta". mine sounds better. besides, i don't know what a joob is. it sounds dirty.
noob
n.: a thing (typically a technology startup company or product) which seems permanently to be "in beta-test" form (more simply, "in beta").
e.g., "microsoft vista, the noob os for n00bs!"
noobish
adv.: having the quality of a noob.
e.g., "like many products of google, gmail has always been a noobish service."
please distinguish noob from n00b. any similarity is purely cosmetic, and not derivative or bacronymal. not trying to ride on n00b's coat-tails, no-siree...
i have nouned it and adverbed it (not even words themselves, ha!), but can anyone verb it, or transmogrify it into another part of speech? i'm really going out on a limb, here, folks.
i used a couple of definition lists above. when was the last time you used the dl, dt, and dd tags, hmm?
for those of you wondering, the inspiration for the phrase "never out of beta" came from the column in wired magazine called "just out of beta". mine sounds better. besides, i don't know what a joob is. it sounds dirty.