[[Image:W00t.JPG|thumb|250px|right|A player exclaims "w00t" during a match of Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy]] The term "w00t" is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually over the Internet. The expression is most popular on USENET posts [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.test/browse_thread/thread/e7309f06c3c613c2/336c0c06168f42bd?q=w00t+group:alt.test&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3Dw00t+group:alt.test%26start%3D30%26scoring%3Dd%26num%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DUTF-8%26lr%3D%26as_drrb%3Dq%26as_qdr%3D%26as_mind%3D1%26as_minm%3D1%26as_miny%3D1981%26as_maxd%3D26%26as_maxm%3D1%26as_maxy%3D2005%26safe%3Doff%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#336c0c06168f42bd], multiplayer computer games (especially first-person shooters), Internet relay chat chats, and instant messages, though use on the World Wide Web in the form of weblogs or in forums is by no means uncommon. == Origins == w00t comes to us via a strange path through music and culture. In 1993 two songs with amazingly similar titles both rose to the top 10 of Billboard magazine's hot tracks for the year. "Whoomp, there it is," and "Whoot, there it is" by rap groups Tag Team and 95 South, respectively, were both describing their pleasure at sighting the posterior of a voluptuous woman (and following in the footsteps of the previous summer's #3 smash hit "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot). These phrases quickly showed up on the internet in discussion of the songs and in similar discussion in alt.rap and rec.music. Prior to the mid nighties rap exposion and bringing the term w00t to the mainstream. This term was used in dark dorm rooms by spotty faced teens playing, you guessed it, Dungeons & Dragons or D&D as it was commony refered to. WOOT was a popular abbreviation for the expression "Wow! Loot!!" made when gold or other treasures where found during play in the game. However, the phrases were catching on in a larger context, as in [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.sport.basketball.pro/browse_thread/thread/57fa55866cc3accd/83edf16b10d86063?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#83edf16b10d86063 this post] about "whoot" from rec.sport.basketball.pro: Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.pro Date: 23 Jun 1993 20:54:59 -0500 From: p...@genesis.MCS.COM (Patrick Sugent) Subject: Re: Crowd chant at Bulls rally? lore...@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Eric Lorenzo) writes: > I taped the Bulls rally today (being from Chicago) and I was trying >to figure out what the crowd was chanting. I still had trouble when the >players would start the crowd going also. It sounded like 'Boom! There you >go.' Was this some sort of rallying cry they had during the Finals? I had >never heard it until today. They were saying (or so the paper says) "Whoot! There it is." I have no idea what this means and I have never heard it in conjunction with the Bulls. Apparently, it has something to do with a rap song or some such (implied by the Tribune). This is not exactly my area of expertise. :-) After that there are more appearances in the sports context and increasingly as a standalone phrase in more geek settings. July 11 1993 in rec.games.frp.dnd [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.frp.dnd/browse_frm/thread/2bc62842b5c8f7b4/f1492f68518be86a?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#f1492f68518be86a saw whoot in a DND gamer's sig]: Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 20:47:06 GMT From: dhe...@mindvox.phantom.com (Double Helix) Subject: Net.Rogues.Gallery I think it would be interested to make a Net.Rogues.Gallery. People could send in some of their most famous/infamous PCs and NPCs. What does everyone think about it? Does something like this already exist? I'd be willing to compile the list. -Dh* Double Helix & Wistful dhe...@mindvox.phantom.com - "Whoot, there it is." [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.alternative/browse_thread/thread/8be12927f6c45692/eda4bef85e8a1760?q=whoot&rnum=19&hl=en#eda4bef85e8a1760 This post] shows a sarcastic take on the phrase in alt.music.alternative, and predates only slightly [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.cyberpunk/browse_frm/thread/cce1357107e7b916/0cfdaf45966de7a6?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#0cfdaf45966de7a6 the first solid use of whoot as a geeky slang interjective] in alt.cyberpunk on Aug 8, 1993: Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk Date: 8 Aug 1993 13:52:11 -0400 From: c...@panix.com (Clay Shirky) Subject: Whoot, there it is/NYT and the death of c-p Just finished the NYT article about Idol, which was pretty amusing, but the sidebar containing a McHistory of c-p is the death knell, containing such pieces of balanced reporting as calling rtm a cyberterrorist, calling the internet DARPANet and saying that EFF was founded to "keep the Government off hackers backs." My new "Quadratic Rip-Tide Theory of Information Channels" is that when the volume of misinformation about a given subject is >= the square of the volume of real information moving in the opposite direction, the real information is sucked deep into a watery grave. ;-) Further sightings repeat the new geek application of the phrase, with the double-zero "00" form appearing in November of 1994, [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.skiing.snowboard/browse_thread/thread/7fa727df630f138c/abef4b7d7c273e4c?q=wh00t&rnum=2&hl=en#abef4b7d7c273e4c first as wh00t] on rec.skiing.snowboard: Newsgroups: rec.skiing.snowboard Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 21:17:00 -0500 From: John Paul Brzustowicz
Subject: Re: Widowmaker CD ROM very soon
Excerpts from netnews.rec.skiing.snowboard: 19-Nov-94 Re: Widowmaker CD
ROM very .. by S...@sukmag.demon.co.uk
> Quick Time 2.0 films, interviews with Brushie, Kelly, Haakonsen ++ So
> check your sources before you slag, ok.
Hey slick, back up there a second....
I have that CD-ROM from Burton too, but I didn't see any interviews...
sure I saw them all riding, they got clips of that, but I never really
saw any interviews. Maybe I missed something...
I talked to some lady at Burton, and she was saying there's all
kinds of neat stuff on the disk, like clicking in different places or
such gets neat things not otherwise seen.....anyone find any of these?
wh00t!!!!
Euler_
and then for [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.games.doom/browse_frm/thread/b44f776fd19884bc/bd627d3a972ff86c?q=w00t&rnum=1&hl=en#bd627d3a972ff86c the first time in its more common refinement] (removing the 'h') in alt.games.doom a few days later, in a user's name:
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Date: 24 Nov 1994 05:28:38 GMT
From: w...@access4.digex.net (Da W00T [AcC3$$ D3Ni3D])
Subject: multiplayer game door
What does anybody know about multiplayer game doors for BBS's..
I investigated APCi's server MPGS and it requires 2 machines with 2
digiboards... are there any others that people know of? if so please
EMAIL me with a response to this post... I need it ASAP...
thanks..
The link to Doom is interesting, as Doom itself appeared in 1993 -- the same year as the popular "whoot" rap songs -- and included a multi-player mode where players could type messages to each other during gameplay. The "w00t" form would have been faster to type, and of course more leet.
== Usage ==
It is sometimes explained that "w00t" is an exclamation of excitement, which cannot be used sarcastically. Because Internet text-based chat cannot communicate the vocal subtleties of spoken word, such as sarcasm, word choice can be very important to the clarity of a message. "Whoo-hoo", "yay", "hooray", and other words similar to "w00t" could all be used with sarcastic intent ("I have a dentist's appointment today. Yay."), whereas "w00t" would always be interpreted as a genuine expression of excitement ("I have a dentist's appointment today. w00t!").
"w00t" is pronounced to rhyme with "boot" or "shoot", and can also be written as "woot", "w00+", "w007", or any number of other leet variations. The "w" in "w00t" is sometimes also followed by an "h", as in "wh00t", "whoot" or "wh007". Some argue that "w00t!" is the only proper spelling. The symbolic approximation of Latin alphabet letter forms makes "w00t" a prime example of leet. It may also sometimes be seen spelled as "wewt", without any change in pronunciation. The phrase is often used twice in succession, as in "w00t! w00t!".
The word is often used as a taunt in first person shooter games, or multiplayer games, typically used with pwn, as in "3y3 pwned j00! w00t! w00t!" (I owned you, w00t! w00t!). The word "w00t" also has a possible meaning of "We Owned the Other Team.", and is commonly used in team based first person shooters such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_strike Counter Strike].
"w00t" also materialized on IRC (warez channels in particular) in the mid-1990s—an Onomatopoeia word of the sound a robot might make ("clicks", "whirrs", and "beeps" were also popular). Upon entering a channel, or entering into a "conversation" with a bot, one could be greeted with "w00t": "W00t! Welcome nght_kllah back to #ultiwarez!"
Also, most people claim that the term "w00t!" simply isn't complete without the use of the exclamation mark, as it adds to the rejoiceful inherent meaning of the word.
An emoticon "\o/" is used for "w00t!" during chat. This emoticon appears to be derived from Homer Simpson's cry of happiness "woohoo!" and it is perhaps inspired by the Japanese cry, "banzai!". Both involve a shout and the raising of the arms above the head.
According to a contest on Merriam-Webster Online, this word is the third most popular word used in popular culture that is not in dictionary.
==See also==
* leet
==External links==
* [http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/gaming/38e7/ Thinkgeek] sells a t-shirt with the word and offers their take on the history of the expression.
* [http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/W/w00t.html The Jargon File] offers their definition of the word.
* [http://m-w.com/info/favorite.htm W00t in the most popular word list at Merriam-Webster]
Computer and video game terminology
Internet slang
New sections at the bottom, please. =Origin Debate= ==Rap Origin Theory== User:Pablo Mayrgundter 04:26, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC) says: I posted the claim that w00t comes from the rap songs. I've never really doubted this origin, despite quite a plethora of other attempted attributions ;) but I've finally busted out google groups and it's now very clear the derivation is as claimed.. with a fairly smooth lineage at that. It looks like most of the other attributions are much later than the earliest ones I found, so to spare space in the article, I think it's best to move from the origin in the rap songs to the first occurence as w00t, and not include anything from there. Here's the draft: "w00t comes to us via a strange path through music and culture. In 1993 two songs with amazingly similar titles both rose to the top 10 of Billboard's hot tracks for the year. "Whoomp, there it is," and "Whoot, there it is" by rap groups Tag Team and 95 South, respectively, were both describing their pleasure at sighting the posterior of a voluptuous woman (and following in the footsteps of the previous summer's #3 smash hit "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot). These phrases quickly showed up on the internet in discussion of the songs and in similar discussion in alt.rap and rec.music. However, the phrases were catching on in a larger context, as in [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.sport.basketball.pro/browse_thread/thread/57fa55866cc3accd/83edf16b10d86063?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#83edf16b10d86063 this post] about "whoot" from rec.sport.basketball.pro: Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.pro Date: 23 Jun 1993 20:54:59 -0500 From: p...@genesis.MCS.COM (Patrick Sugent) Subject: Re: Crowd chant at Bulls rally? lore...@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Eric Lorenzo) writes: > I taped the Bulls rally today (being from Chicago) and I was trying >to figure out what the crowd was chanting. I still had trouble when the >players would start the crowd going also. It sounded like 'Boom! There you >go.' Was this some sort of rallying cry they had during the Finals? I had >never heard it until today. They were saying (or so the paper says) "Whoot! There it is." I have no idea what this means and I have never heard it in conjunction with the Bulls. Apparently, it has something to do with a rap song or some such (implied by the Tribune). This is not exactly my area of expertise. :-) After that there are more appearances in the sports context and increasingly as a standalone phrase in more geek settings. July 11 1993 in rec.games.frp.dnd [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.frp.dnd/browse_frm/thread/2bc62842b5c8f7b4/f1492f68518be86a?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#f1492f68518be86a saw whoot in a DND gamer's sig]: Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 20:47:06 GMT From: dhe...@mindvox.phantom.com (Double Helix) Subject: Net.Rogues.Gallery I think it would be interested to make a Net.Rogues.Gallery. People could send in some of their most famous/infamous PCs and NPCs. What does everyone think about it? Does something like this already exist? I'd be willing to compile the list. -Dh* Double Helix & Wistful dhe...@mindvox.phantom.com - "Whoot, there it is." [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.alternative/browse_thread/thread/8be12927f6c45692/eda4bef85e8a1760?q=whoot&rnum=19&hl=en#eda4bef85e8a1760 This post] shows a sarcastic take on the phrase in alt.music.alternative, and predates only slightly [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.cyberpunk/browse_frm/thread/cce1357107e7b916/0cfdaf45966de7a6?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#0cfdaf45966de7a6 the first solid use of whoot as a geeky slang interjective] in alt.cyberpunk on Aug 8, 1993: Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk Date: 8 Aug 1993 13:52:11 -0400 From: c...@panix.com (Clay Shirky) Subject: Whoot, there it is/NYT and the death of c-p Just finished the NYT article about Idol, which was pretty amusing, but the sidebar containing a McHistory of c-p is the death knell, containing such pieces of balanced reporting as calling rtm a cyberterrorist, calling the internet DARPANet and saying that EFF was founded to "keep the Government off hackers backs." My new "Quadratic Rip-Tide Theory of Information Channels" is that when the volume of misinformation about a given subject is >= the square of the volume of real information moving in the opposite direction, the real information is sucked deep into a watery grave. ;-) Further sightings repeat the new geek application of the phrase, with the double-zero "00" form appearing in November of 1994, [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.skiing.snowboard/browse_thread/thread/7fa727df630f138c/abef4b7d7c273e4c?q=wh00t&rnum=2&hl=en#abef4b7d7c273e4c first as wh00t] on rec.skiing.snowboard, and then for [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.games.doom/browse_frm/thread/b44f776fd19884bc/bd627d3a972ff86c?q=w00t&rnum=1&hl=en#bd627d3a972ff86c the first time in its more common refinement] (removing the 'h') in alt.games.doom a few days later, in a user's name: Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Date: 24 Nov 1994 05:28:38 GMT From: w...@access4.digex.net (Da W00T [AcC3$$ D3Ni3D]) Subject: multiplayer game door What does anybody know about multiplayer game doors for BBS's.. I investigated APCi's server MPGS and it requires 2 machines with 2 digiboards... are there any others that people know of? if so please EMAIL me with a response to this post... I need it ASAP... thanks.. The link to Doom is interesting, as Doom itself appeared in 1993 -- the same year as the popular "whoot" rap songs -- and included a multi-player mode where players could type messages to each other during gameplay. The "w00t" form would have been faster to type, and of course more leet". ---- I'm glad I am not alone in remembering these two songs as the first place I heard the term. Would links to the Amazon entries for the songs in question be out of place? (They have playable RealMedia / WMP samples of the songs) [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000008IZ4 Whoot (There it is) by 95 South] [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MLV1 Whoomp (There it is) by Tag Team] ---- w00t! ---- w00t is also derived from the phrase 'woo! loot!' i belive it was featured in either everquest or rtcw3D i don't remember which. == w00t as a derivative and leetified version of root == Plain and simple, r to w, oo to 00, and the t stays. I originoally heard it exclaimed near me by someone completing a hacker challenge. When asked he said that he had achieved the goal and the customary hacker response is w00t, because when a hacker gains root he has achieved whatever he needs to do with the box. :Can you substantiate that? - User:Jredmond 23:05, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) ISTR some CS students in the early '90s using "root" and "guest" as expressions of, respectively, excellence and mediocrity. The allusion there was definitely to computer permissions in which "root" was the highest level of access and "guest" (an unauthenticated user) the lowest. E.g., ''"Mountain Dew is root." "Canadian Mountain Dew is guest; there's no caffeine in it."'' It seems likely to me that "w00t" comes from "root" either by way of a script kiddie's taunt ("i w00ted u") or by way of the root/guest slang. But I sadly do not have a citation for either. --User:Fubar Obfusco 00:28, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
Words begining with W00t:
W00t
W00t
W00t!
W00t.JPG
W00t_master
W00t
[[Image:W00t.JPG|thumb|250px|right|A player exclaims "w00t" during a match of Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy]] The term "w00t" is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually over the Internet. The expression is most popular on USENET posts [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.test/browse_thread/thread/e7309f06c3c613c2/336c0c06168f42bd?q=w00t+group:alt.test&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3Dw00t+group:alt.test%26start%3D30%26scoring%3Dd%26num%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DUTF-8%26lr%3D%26as_drrb%3Dq%26as_qdr%3D%26as_mind%3D1%26as_minm%3D1%26as_miny%3D1981%26as_maxd%3D26%26as_maxm%3D1%26as_maxy%3D2005%26safe%3Doff%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#336c0c06168f42bd], multiplayer computer games (especially first-person shooters), Internet relay chat chats, and instant messages, though use on the World Wide Web in the form of weblogs or in forums is by no means uncommon. == Origins == w00t comes to us via a strange path through music and culture. In 1993 two songs with amazingly similar titles both rose to the top 10 of Billboard magazine's hot tracks for the year. "Whoomp, there it is," and "Whoot, there it is" by rap groups Tag Team and 95 South, respectively, were both describing their pleasure at sighting the posterior of a voluptuous woman (and following in the footsteps of the previous summer's #3 smash hit "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot). These phrases quickly showed up on the internet in discussion of the songs and in similar discussion in alt.rap and rec.music. Prior to the mid nighties rap exposion and bringing the term w00t to the mainstream. This term was used in dark dorm rooms by spotty faced teens playing, you guessed it, Dungeons & Dragons or D&D as it was commony refered to. WOOT was a popular abbreviation for the expression "Wow! Loot!!" made when gold or other treasures where found during play in the game. However, the phrases were catching on in a larger context, as in [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.sport.basketball.pro/browse_thread/thread/57fa55866cc3accd/83edf16b10d86063?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#83edf16b10d86063 this post] about "whoot" from rec.sport.basketball.pro: Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.pro Date: 23 Jun 1993 20:54:59 -0500 From: p...@genesis.MCS.COM (Patrick Sugent) Subject: Re: Crowd chant at Bulls rally? lore...@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Eric Lorenzo) writes: > I taped the Bulls rally today (being from Chicago) and I was trying >to figure out what the crowd was chanting. I still had trouble when the >players would start the crowd going also. It sounded like 'Boom! There you >go.' Was this some sort of rallying cry they had during the Finals? I had >never heard it until today. They were saying (or so the paper says) "Whoot! There it is." I have no idea what this means and I have never heard it in conjunction with the Bulls. Apparently, it has something to do with a rap song or some such (implied by the Tribune). This is not exactly my area of expertise. :-) After that there are more appearances in the sports context and increasingly as a standalone phrase in more geek settings. July 11 1993 in rec.games.frp.dnd [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.frp.dnd/browse_frm/thread/2bc62842b5c8f7b4/f1492f68518be86a?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#f1492f68518be86a saw whoot in a DND gamer's sig]: Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 20:47:06 GMT From: dhe...@mindvox.phantom.com (Double Helix) Subject: Net.Rogues.Gallery I think it would be interested to make a Net.Rogues.Gallery. People could send in some of their most famous/infamous PCs and NPCs. What does everyone think about it? Does something like this already exist? I'd be willing to compile the list. -Dh* Double Helix & Wistful dhe...@mindvox.phantom.com - "Whoot, there it is." [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.alternative/browse_thread/thread/8be12927f6c45692/eda4bef85e8a1760?q=whoot&rnum=19&hl=en#eda4bef85e8a1760 This post] shows a sarcastic take on the phrase in alt.music.alternative, and predates only slightly [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.cyberpunk/browse_frm/thread/cce1357107e7b916/0cfdaf45966de7a6?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#0cfdaf45966de7a6 the first solid use of whoot as a geeky slang interjective] in alt.cyberpunk on Aug 8, 1993: Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk Date: 8 Aug 1993 13:52:11 -0400 From: c...@panix.com (Clay Shirky) Subject: Whoot, there it is/NYT and the death of c-p Just finished the NYT article about Idol, which was pretty amusing, but the sidebar containing a McHistory of c-p is the death knell, containing such pieces of balanced reporting as calling rtm a cyberterrorist, calling the internet DARPANet and saying that EFF was founded to "keep the Government off hackers backs." My new "Quadratic Rip-Tide Theory of Information Channels" is that when the volume of misinformation about a given subject is >= the square of the volume of real information moving in the opposite direction, the real information is sucked deep into a watery grave. ;-) Further sightings repeat the new geek application of the phrase, with the double-zero "00" form appearing in November of 1994, [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.skiing.snowboard/browse_thread/thread/7fa727df630f138c/abef4b7d7c273e4c?q=wh00t&rnum=2&hl=en#abef4b7d7c273e4c first as wh00t] on rec.skiing.snowboard: Newsgroups: rec.skiing.snowboard Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 21:17:00 -0500 From: John Paul Brzustowicz
W00t
New sections at the bottom, please. =Origin Debate= ==Rap Origin Theory== User:Pablo Mayrgundter 04:26, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC) says: I posted the claim that w00t comes from the rap songs. I've never really doubted this origin, despite quite a plethora of other attempted attributions ;) but I've finally busted out google groups and it's now very clear the derivation is as claimed.. with a fairly smooth lineage at that. It looks like most of the other attributions are much later than the earliest ones I found, so to spare space in the article, I think it's best to move from the origin in the rap songs to the first occurence as w00t, and not include anything from there. Here's the draft: "w00t comes to us via a strange path through music and culture. In 1993 two songs with amazingly similar titles both rose to the top 10 of Billboard's hot tracks for the year. "Whoomp, there it is," and "Whoot, there it is" by rap groups Tag Team and 95 South, respectively, were both describing their pleasure at sighting the posterior of a voluptuous woman (and following in the footsteps of the previous summer's #3 smash hit "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot). These phrases quickly showed up on the internet in discussion of the songs and in similar discussion in alt.rap and rec.music. However, the phrases were catching on in a larger context, as in [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.sport.basketball.pro/browse_thread/thread/57fa55866cc3accd/83edf16b10d86063?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#83edf16b10d86063 this post] about "whoot" from rec.sport.basketball.pro: Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.pro Date: 23 Jun 1993 20:54:59 -0500 From: p...@genesis.MCS.COM (Patrick Sugent) Subject: Re: Crowd chant at Bulls rally? lore...@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Eric Lorenzo) writes: > I taped the Bulls rally today (being from Chicago) and I was trying >to figure out what the crowd was chanting. I still had trouble when the >players would start the crowd going also. It sounded like 'Boom! There you >go.' Was this some sort of rallying cry they had during the Finals? I had >never heard it until today. They were saying (or so the paper says) "Whoot! There it is." I have no idea what this means and I have never heard it in conjunction with the Bulls. Apparently, it has something to do with a rap song or some such (implied by the Tribune). This is not exactly my area of expertise. :-) After that there are more appearances in the sports context and increasingly as a standalone phrase in more geek settings. July 11 1993 in rec.games.frp.dnd [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.frp.dnd/browse_frm/thread/2bc62842b5c8f7b4/f1492f68518be86a?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#f1492f68518be86a saw whoot in a DND gamer's sig]: Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 20:47:06 GMT From: dhe...@mindvox.phantom.com (Double Helix) Subject: Net.Rogues.Gallery I think it would be interested to make a Net.Rogues.Gallery. People could send in some of their most famous/infamous PCs and NPCs. What does everyone think about it? Does something like this already exist? I'd be willing to compile the list. -Dh* Double Helix & Wistful dhe...@mindvox.phantom.com - "Whoot, there it is." [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.alternative/browse_thread/thread/8be12927f6c45692/eda4bef85e8a1760?q=whoot&rnum=19&hl=en#eda4bef85e8a1760 This post] shows a sarcastic take on the phrase in alt.music.alternative, and predates only slightly [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.cyberpunk/browse_frm/thread/cce1357107e7b916/0cfdaf45966de7a6?q=whoot&rnum=2&hl=en#0cfdaf45966de7a6 the first solid use of whoot as a geeky slang interjective] in alt.cyberpunk on Aug 8, 1993: Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk Date: 8 Aug 1993 13:52:11 -0400 From: c...@panix.com (Clay Shirky) Subject: Whoot, there it is/NYT and the death of c-p Just finished the NYT article about Idol, which was pretty amusing, but the sidebar containing a McHistory of c-p is the death knell, containing such pieces of balanced reporting as calling rtm a cyberterrorist, calling the internet DARPANet and saying that EFF was founded to "keep the Government off hackers backs." My new "Quadratic Rip-Tide Theory of Information Channels" is that when the volume of misinformation about a given subject is >= the square of the volume of real information moving in the opposite direction, the real information is sucked deep into a watery grave. ;-) Further sightings repeat the new geek application of the phrase, with the double-zero "00" form appearing in November of 1994, [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.skiing.snowboard/browse_thread/thread/7fa727df630f138c/abef4b7d7c273e4c?q=wh00t&rnum=2&hl=en#abef4b7d7c273e4c first as wh00t] on rec.skiing.snowboard, and then for [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.games.doom/browse_frm/thread/b44f776fd19884bc/bd627d3a972ff86c?q=w00t&rnum=1&hl=en#bd627d3a972ff86c the first time in its more common refinement] (removing the 'h') in alt.games.doom a few days later, in a user's name: Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Date: 24 Nov 1994 05:28:38 GMT From: w...@access4.digex.net (Da W00T [AcC3$$ D3Ni3D]) Subject: multiplayer game door What does anybody know about multiplayer game doors for BBS's.. I investigated APCi's server MPGS and it requires 2 machines with 2 digiboards... are there any others that people know of? if so please EMAIL me with a response to this post... I need it ASAP... thanks.. The link to Doom is interesting, as Doom itself appeared in 1993 -- the same year as the popular "whoot" rap songs -- and included a multi-player mode where players could type messages to each other during gameplay. The "w00t" form would have been faster to type, and of course more leet". ---- I'm glad I am not alone in remembering these two songs as the first place I heard the term. Would links to the Amazon entries for the songs in question be out of place? (They have playable RealMedia / WMP samples of the songs) [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000008IZ4 Whoot (There it is) by 95 South] [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MLV1 Whoomp (There it is) by Tag Team] ---- w00t! ---- w00t is also derived from the phrase 'woo! loot!' i belive it was featured in either everquest or rtcw3D i don't remember which. == w00t as a derivative and leetified version of root == Plain and simple, r to w, oo to 00, and the t stays. I originoally heard it exclaimed near me by someone completing a hacker challenge. When asked he said that he had achieved the goal and the customary hacker response is w00t, because when a hacker gains root he has achieved whatever he needs to do with the box. :Can you substantiate that? - User:Jredmond 23:05, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) ISTR some CS students in the early '90s using "root" and "guest" as expressions of, respectively, excellence and mediocrity. The allusion there was definitely to computer permissions in which "root" was the highest level of access and "guest" (an unauthenticated user) the lowest. E.g., ''"Mountain Dew is root." "Canadian Mountain Dew is guest; there's no caffeine in it."'' It seems likely to me that "w00t" comes from "root" either by way of a script kiddie's taunt ("i w00ted u") or by way of the root/guest slang. But I sadly do not have a citation for either. --User:Fubar Obfusco 00:28, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
The most likely origin is as an expression used by a cracker (see security cracking) who has just broken into vulnerable Unix system, obtaining root access: "woot, I have root!"* How is this more likely than any of the other possible explanations for the origins of w00t? If this cannot be explicitly substantiated with evidence it needs to be refactored. —user:Radman1 (User_talk:Radman1) 03:23, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Other ideas == ::I surfed through Google Groups interface and found two instances of "Woot!" as a standalone phrase from mid to late 1994. The later [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.deckmaster.marketplace/msg/06964d199ffa5598 post] titled "Woot! I got 'da Land!" is from a Paul Stephanouk dated October 18, 1994. The earlier [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/hsv.general/msg/eeef5720e4ea65c2?hl=en post] in September 12, 2004 was from a Chris Fisher who in a thread about a Huntsville, Alabama (USA) indoor laser tag location (or game?) called "Q-Zar" wrote: "Yesterday we all played again, my first game was a low scorer, I helped lots of newbies get some base hits and for the cause (our team won!@# woot!@#) I died a lot." Here's the entire [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/hsv.general/browse_thread/thread/aa494175851bca34/eeef5720e4ea65c2?q=woot!&rnum=31&hl=en#eeef5720e4ea65c2 thread]. It's interesting to note that Paul Stephanouk (who is mentioned as a "director of systems development" at a Huntsville ISP) initiated that thread. ::There appear to be Fall 1993 [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.sport.football.pro/browse_frm/thread/e0f3c1dd1ba0ca17/c6b5a128f480c88f?tvc=1&q=%2295+south%22+%22whoot%22&hl=en#c6b5a128f480c88f references] to the US football team, the New Orleans Saints who used the "Whoot! There it is!" phrase in a cheer. The [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.sport.football.pro/msg/4a21616395e98800?hl=en poster] says he knew the correct spelling only because the phrase was on t-shirts. Here's my totally speculative scenario: whoever handled cheerleading for the New Orleans Saints decided on the "Whoot! There it is" cheer because of its simularity to the "Whoomp!" version. Perhaps the choice of "Whoot!" versus "Whoomp!" got decided on licensing grounds (this phrase after all ended up on t-shirts). Anyway, Saints fans take the phrase home with them and within a short while bring it to the internet. ::I apologize for the number of Google links, but Google groups does appear here to be useful to help determine when these phrases appeared in the wild. - User:KarlHallowell 00:54, 29 May 2005 (UTC) ::: Oops. Replied to wrong comment. - User:KarlHallowell 16:49, 29 May 2005 (UTC) --- Is it not clear that w00t comes from the German for cool? :Can you substantiate that? - User:Jredmond 23:06, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) --- I too hold that w00t derives from "what"; initially used as a replacement, leetspeek-like, and then slowly deriving it's own meaning, particularly so since the pronounciation is similar to other English non-word cries of victory or success (such as "wooohoo!"). Toast. --- Hi, Take this claim with whatever grain of salt you wish: In about 1996-1997, I was an irc operator on the stomped.com (a popular quake fansite, now defunct) irc server, and I almost believe w00t may have originated in our operator channel (whose name escapes me, it may have been called #stomped). At some point, we all started talking like l33t h4x0rZ (for no reason, there wasn't anyone who actually claimed to be a hacker/cracker of any kind, we just thought it was funny. then again, we _were_ totally l33t quake g0dz). Anyway, me and this guy who went by 'mechfarlane' just started using it one day (when something particularly cool happened i'm sure, like scoring a copy of quake2). in any event, it was a corruption of "woop!". Anyway, if you can cite anything prior to 1996, go for it. i never heard it anywhere else, until about 1999. i'm not sure we invented it, but i certainly didn't hear it being used before then, or a long time afterwards. I always liked the word, because it made you stick your lips out in an amusing way. other variants we used were "wewt" , and of course "w3wt" =Deletion Debate= For an August 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/W00t =Definition= i have alwas been under the impression, that "w00t" is used as a shocked/outraged kind of "what".. like: Person 1: "i'll go kill myself now!" Person 2: "w00t!?" The word is also used in situations of confusion, caused by something totally unrealistic, like some sort of lucky mass-kill in a computer game. More an expression, then a question to what actually happened.. ---- The article states that the term has not yet reached general usage and understanding. What does this mean, exactly? Certainly, amonsgst some people it is popularly understood and amongst others it is not. However, I think the younger generation of Westerners for the most part understand the term, and in a few years this will equate to a good amount of adults who do. What qualifies as general usage/understanding? : Although not implicitly clear, I think what the author meant is that "w00t" does not have one single meaning. Much in the same way that the slange usage of the word "word" itself is used today. For the most part though, it is an interjection to express excitement (as noted) or used as an acknowledgement in response to a question. For example, you could tell a friend, "I just leeched a copy of Half Life 2, want to come over and check it out?" and the appropriate reply could be "w00t!" (or "word!") in this instance meaning "Yes, of course!" = w00t in everyday Language = I use the term "w00t!" in everyday language. So do a large group of my friends, and many others as well. The term has become, not only a Net culture, but a RL Culture as well. ie. "I just got paid! W00t!" Again, showing excitement of the statement. Or "you are t3h suck! w00t!", which also can be said in RL (Pronunciating the "t3h" is mandatory) =Editorial= This article includes the incredibly unhelpful claim that "w00t is pronounced as if it were 'woot'". There is no common English word "woot", so how is anyone to know how to pronounce it? The "oo" could be pronounced as in "book" or as in "boot". Can someone please clarify this, preferably using International_Phonetic_Alphabet)IPA">(International Phonetic Alphabet)IPA symbols or whatever equivalent phonetic transcription is accepted on Wikipedia? User:Psychonaut 14:14, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC) :I changed that sentence to indicate that "w00t" rhymes with "boot" and "root", though someone more fluent in the Wikipedia phonetic alphabet of choice may want to add a better explanation of pronunciation. - User:Jredmond 16:49, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC) I changed the rhyming pronunciation to compare to "boot" and "shoot" as opposed to "boot" and "root." "Root" is pronounced differently depending on region, and M-W and OED both list a pronunciation for "root" rhyming with "foot." That alternate pronunciation happens to be prevalent here in the upper Midwest of the USA. --- Please cite references Quote:: ''w00t itself was first seen in 1994. The expression rose in popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s.'' : It is generally a very bad practice to say "X was first seen in the year N". This statement is very difficult, if not impossible, to verify. If the original author would, please cite the 1994 reference as that would be helpful but still would only prove the earliest documented existence ''known to Wikipedia'' at this time. —en:RaD Man (User_talk:Radman1) 19:19, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC) ---- I emailed ThinkGeek to ask them to link to this entry. User:Kent Wang 14:05, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC) ---- BTW, the W00t article was linked in a well rated [http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151028&cid=12666638 post] (on w00t!) on slashdot, just a few hours ago. So that explains the May 29 traffic you'll see. - User:KarlHallowell 01:12, 29 May 2005 (UTC) ==Woot, we figured it out== But we should keep the backronyms that enjoy some popularity, as long as we make clear that they're wrong. For instance I've seen "we owned the other team" and "wonderful loot" mentioned many places. --User:SPUI (User talk:SPUI) 22:09, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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