DEFINITION of 'w00t' From Jargon File (4.3.3, 20 Sep 2002)
w00t An interjection similar to "Yay!", as in: "w00t!!! I just got a raise!" Some claim this is a bastardization of "root", the highest level of access to a system (particularly UNIX), originated by script kiddies as a 133tspeak equivalent of "root", and said as an exclamation upon gaining root access. Others claim it originated in the Everquest multiplayer game as an abbreviation of "wonderful loot". Adj. `w00table' has the sense of "cool" or "nifty". This is one of the few leet-speak coinages to have crossed over into non-ironic use among hackers.
(or so says John Goerzen: http://gopher.quux.org:70/pygfarm/dict.pyg%7C/jargon/DEFINITION/w00t)
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Date: 2003-10-18 08:03 pm (UTC)From Jargon File (4.3.3, 20 Sep 2002)
w00t An interjection similar to "Yay!", as in: "w00t!!! I just got a
raise!" Some claim this is a bastardization of "root", the highest level
of access to a system (particularly UNIX), originated by script kiddies
as a 133tspeak equivalent of "root", and said as an exclamation upon
gaining root access. Others claim it originated in the Everquest
multiplayer game as an abbreviation of "wonderful loot". Adj. `w00table'
has the sense of "cool" or "nifty". This is one of the few leet-speak
coinages to have crossed over into non-ironic use among hackers.
(or so says John Goerzen: http://gopher.quux.org:70/pygfarm/dict.pyg%7C/jargon/DEFINITION/w00t)
Em "never let it be said I missed a teachable moment" Friedman