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I think I remember the use of the term 'script kiddie' to refer to wannabe hackers who run other people's scripts without really understanding them, from the early-to-mid 1990s, but I don't have any references and it might just as well be from the late 1990s.

Maybe I'll dig into some of my old HackTic magazines to see if they mention it anywhere, but I don't think they did. I think I encountered it online on usenet somewhere, which suggests its use was already pretty mainstream at the time.