I want to know, who invented "W00T!"

[AttyPops]

There's plenty of good expressions. I know it's trendy....

W00t this, Woot that. W00T w00t w0Ot.

For your consideration: Woot (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Driving me w00tie. (By the way... technically it's zeros (00) not ohs (OO). If anything, I vote for "Whoot". But, of course, it's "woot" that will catch on.

Argh!

/rant

 

[caffeinated]

It's old gamer-speak, short for "we owned (the) other team." It was later merged with 1337-speak, and the O's were replaced with zeros.

It's definitely been around for a long while. I remember using woot while gaming online in the early `90s.

 

[SilverBear]

... I know it's trendy ...

No. It is sad, pathetic, and very last-century.

 

[Steel]

but then owned changed to pwned.. due to terrible typing skills of gamers (such as myself at the time... ah how i miss counterstrike)

 

[DaveP]

It had to be someone related to the guy who invented "Yowsir!" His Uncle invented "HotDamn"

 

[808elite]

interesting to learn where the word woot actually came from... people should be saying it all over COD then... and the people that own woot.com are wealthy as hell now lol

 

[son et lumiere]

It's old gamer-speak, short for "we owned (the) other team." It was later merged with 1337-speak, and the O's were replaced with zeros.

It's definitely been around for a long while. I remember using woot while gaming online in the early `90s.

Yep you are definately right BUT the first online mmorpg was Ultima Online and that was released in later 97. I could be wrong but I doubt it.

 

[TNT]

Oh, who could it be, who could it be... SATAN?

 

[caffeinated]

Yep you are definately right BUT the first online mmorpg was Ultima Online and that was released in later 97. I could be wrong but I doubt it.

The specific game I was referring to was called CyberStrike. I played it online from 1993 to about 1997/98. For the first couple of years, it was only on the GEnie network. Then it moved to AOL in 1995, before the web really exploded.

Anyway, as to the MMORPG description: CyberStrike was neither Massive, nor was it an RPG, so it definitely doesn't qualify as one of those. It was a team-oriented mech battle game where you could only play in groups of no more than 16 (four teams of four players). But, there were dozens of "cities" where dozens of games could take place simultaneously. So, there were rarely more than 100-150 players online at a time.

Oh yeah, and while it was on GEnie, it cost $3.50 an hour to play, too!

And yes, we used "woot."

 

[son et lumiere]

The specific game I was referring to was called CyberStrike. I played it online from 1993 to about 1997/98. For the first couple of years, it was only on the GEnie network. Then it moved to AOL in 1995, before the web really exploded.

Anyway, as to the MMORPG description: CyberStrike was neither Massive, nor was it an RPG, so it definitely doesn't qualify as one of those. It was a team-oriented mech battle game where you could only play in groups of no more than 16 (four teams of four players). But, there were dozens of "cities" where dozens of games could take place simultaneously. So, there were rarely more than 100-150 players online at a time.

Oh yeah, and while it was on GEnie, it cost $3.50 an hour to play, too!

And yes, we used "woot."

OMGosh that is interesting. Always thought UO was the first. Thanks for enlightening me.

 

[Susett]

No. It is sad, pathetic, and very last-century.

Wow thats rough! But I tend to use the word W00t fairly often. Been a gamer too long I suppose. I dont know from last century but the kids woooooot all over runescape to this day lol
Although not a kid myself .. I do draw the line a powned lol
(grandson drug me into runescape kicking and screaming he was 12 then and recently turned 18 lol)

 

[congaman]

woot-woot!!

 

[rolandpibb]

I thought it was wo0t Small case o then a zero. And is always written, never spoken