Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
quote:
Originally posted by DJ_Shockwav nothing can compare to the almighty w00t
knockoffs suck, take for example... you go out and buy a mitsubishi pill... you take it thinking it the real thing, however, it's really ratpoison and you die...
see... knockoffs can even kill people
(wtf was i thinking when i typed this... i need sleep)
ahhh, now that you explain it like THAT, i understand.
Nov-10-2001 00:06
ABTsportsline
Disabled Veteran
Registered: May 2001
Location: Rural WA, USA
w00t!
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Peace.
Oct-15-2002 05:07
nrjizer
vive le deep
Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Bumfuck, GA
Well since I lack the patience to search the thread and see if anyone posted the correct origin, Ill just go ahead and post it myself
To the best of my memory, woot is a bastardized way of saying "root," some old hacker term from 10-20 years ago refering to the root code or whatever in a program. Apparantly root itself was turned into somewhat of an elated remark