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What does WOOT stand for?
Its a great website: www.woot.com. But what does it take its name from??
5 Answers
- cheezzznitzLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
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 an trunicated 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.
"I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!"
"woot! i r teh flagmastar!" (Think Tribes)
"Woot, I pwnzed this dude's boxen!'
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Woot takes its name from the widely-used online interjection “w00t!”
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W00t - 1 decade ago
W00T - It just means like 'huray' sometimes people say *cheer* in IM messages instead.
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