Woot!

April 19, 2008 – 3:20 pm

I ran Karazhan for the first time last night and got these pieces:

For all you non-RPG-playing nooblets out there, “woot” is a word derived from the phrase “Wow, loot!”.



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  1. 6 Responses to “Woot!”

  2. Ohh…is that really how “woot” came about? I always wondered that :)

    By Loren UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Apr 20, 2008

  3. Yep…sure is :-)

    By Jeremy UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Apr 20, 2008

  4. I must say I didn’t know the etymology of woot. I keep trying to write something clever to write but the lolcatz keep looping and I can’t stop laughing. I give.

    By Jeremy UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Apr 30, 2008

  5. I’m glad you enjoy them :-)

    I wrote that plugin about 4 months ago and it’s given me great pleasure as well.

    By Jeremy UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Apr 30, 2008

  6. My understanding has always been that “woot” originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer.

    By evan UNITED STATES Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0 on Jun 1, 2008

  7. Looks like we’re both right:

    Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, “w00t”.

    “w00t” was originally a truncated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for “Wow, loot!” Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.

    Source: Urban Dictionary

    By Jeremy UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Jun 2, 2008

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