whudats June 17, 2006 Share whudats Member June 17, 2006 Okay, so I know what they mean, but I never knew where they came from. Did you guys know this? "Pwned" - A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned." Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned." May also be used to your friends when they lose their keys, drop a cell phone or spill coffee on their new pants. "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 videogame communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement and extreme nerdiness. "I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters June 17, 2006 Share stutters GC Alumni June 17, 2006 edumacation FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EbilDustBunny June 17, 2006 Share EbilDustBunny GC Alumni June 17, 2006 http://techdictionary.com/Action.Lasso?-Da...&-Search=Search Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmerisme June 17, 2006 Share farmerisme Member June 17, 2006 http://techdictionary.com/Action.Lasso?-Da...&-Search=Search LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclean June 17, 2006 Share Unclean Member June 17, 2006 I've also heard woot = "we owned the other team". And ebil is a monkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad June 17, 2006 Share Meatwad Member June 17, 2006 http://techdictionary.com/Action.Lasso?-Da...&-Search=Search ROFL, that totally made my day. I can name a few monkeys myself... You know who your are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whudats June 17, 2006 Author Share whudats Member June 17, 2006 http://techdictionary.com/Action.Lasso?-Da...&-Search=Search Ouch! Body blow...body blow... ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX June 17, 2006 Share NOFX Member June 17, 2006 I can remember people saying woot back in the Ultima Online days.. which is way before Half-life 1 and pretty much the rise of online FPS. I probably saw other people type it, but the first time I remember using it, I was trying to type woohoo really fast and woot came out. Ultima is pretty much D&D, so it does make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=SKArface=- June 18, 2006 Share -=SKArface=- Member June 18, 2006 I can remember people saying woot back in the Ultima Online days.. which is way before Half-life 1 and pretty much the rise of online FPS. I probably saw other people type it, but the first time I remember using it, I was trying to type woohoo really fast and woot came out. Ultima is pretty much D&D, so it does make sense. First off. . . /me loves teh NOFX, I listen to punk in drublic almost weekly. I always thought woot was a corruption of the noises that the grunts made in warcraft II. It always sounded like they were saying woort woort woort. . . . The wow loot thing make sense too. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EbilDustBunny June 18, 2006 Share EbilDustBunny GC Alumni June 18, 2006 don't forget http://techdictionary.com/Action.Lasso?-Da...&-Search=Search Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver-Bullet June 18, 2006 Share Silver-Bullet Member June 18, 2006 liez. I invited those words back in the day when I had terrible spelling.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGeek June 18, 2006 Share TheGeek Member June 18, 2006 don't forget http://techdictionary.com/Action.Lasso?-Da...&-Search=Search uhhhh no, its (the F'ed word) up beyond all recognition http://www.auditmypc.com/acronym/FUBAR.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EbilDustBunny June 18, 2006 Share EbilDustBunny GC Alumni June 18, 2006 ... it's GC friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allanon June 20, 2006 Share Allanon Member June 20, 2006 Okay, so I know what they mean, but I never knew where they came from. Did you guys know this? "Pwned" - A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned." Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned." May also be used to your friends when they lose their keys, drop a cell phone or spill coffee on their new pants. "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 videogame communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement and extreme nerdiness. "I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!" Yah, I remember finding out about the Warcraft when I first starting playing on battle.net and I remember reading in some EverQuest book that woot stood for that. However, they didn´t say that it originated in D&D, I thought it just came from people raiding in EQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatekeeper June 20, 2006 Share Gatekeeper Member June 20, 2006 (edited) Do you guys know what an LPG is? Some of you are one and most have been pwned (yes i said it) by one... And wat about BOHICA? I like that one, its an army term... Edited June 20, 2006 by Gatekeeper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Soapdish June 20, 2006 Share Nick Soapdish Member June 20, 2006 bend over.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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