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  • noun Internet, rare An old-timer, a person with experience.

Etymologies

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old +‎ -bie

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Examples

  • My name is Joan and just the other day someone referred to me as an "oldbie" which surprised me.

    World of SL Second Life Herald 2010

  • My name is Joan and just the other day someone referred to me as an "oldbie" which surprised me.

    World of SL Second Life Herald 2010

  • My name is Joan and just the other day someone referred to me as an "oldbie" which surprised me.

    World of SL Second Life Herald 2010

  • My name is Joan and just the other day someone referred to me as an "oldbie" which surprised me.

    World of SL Second Life Herald 2010

  • Serious programmers will seek out the BASIC style education they've always needed and wanted even in my CS studies I found that even though Java was the language of choice for all my foundation courses MANY serious students were choosing C for their personal studies and projects and in fact taking the oldbie programmers' sage advice.

    Jimmy Tolkien 2007

  • Just like the campaign against the telehubs, which were another way for the world to be free of the oldbie stranglehold on the economy by being able to buy a rental instead of sucking up and apprenticing to a diva, the removal of traffic is a way of ensuring the permanent berth of people who themselves are not competitive, and are being overtaken by newer and more innovative residents.

    First DWELLNOR, now TRAFFICVS! - SLOG 2007

  • Newbies especially will find it terribly hard to enter, without either paying huge amounts for classifieds, or sucking up to divas to get recognized in their oldbie high-fashion stores.

    First DWELLNOR, now TRAFFICVS! - SLOG 2007

  • The simple act of learning enough html markup to control the look of your myspace page is far easier than any oldbie programming languages were because it gives such immediate and graphically stunning results.

    Jimmy Tolkien 2007

  • I've experienced the same game Dragonrealms by Simutronics from the perspective of both a newbie and an oldbie, and I remember them both vividly, so I can cognize the difference very well.

    Feeling Crowded? 2006

  • In these worlds the newbie can research the history of the oldbie, but the oldbie has equal need for trust, but less information on which to base it.

    Do You Trust Me? 2005

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