I started juuuust before the forums switched from text to this. I started out with a list of video ideas that were ridiculously obvious and stupid. Hooray!
And then I asked some dumb questions about ripping game footage, I think, because I didn't have a DVD drive yet... and now, I've graduated to asking dumb questions about DVD-based stuff. Woohoo.
I still consider myself a newbie. I think I may always be a newbie. Only when all my videos consistently and unequivocally kick ass in massive amounts (y'know, like everybody else's) will I consider myself not a newbie anymore. And by then, everybody else will be so far ahead from where they are now that I'll still be a newbie.
So I'm a permanent newbie. 8)