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== Origins ==
There are lots of possibilities for the origin of "w00t!", the most widely accepted one is that it originated via [[music]] and [[culture]]. In [[1993]], two songs with similar titles both rose to the top 10 of [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'s hot tracks for the year. "Whoomp, there it is," and "Whoot, there it is" by rap groups [[Tag Team]] and [[95 South]], respectively, were both describing their pleasure at sighting the posterior of a voluptuous woman. These songs borrowed the topic of the previous summer's #3 smash hit "Baby Got Back" by [[Sir Mix-A-Lot]]. Similar phrases quickly showed up on the Internet in discussion of the songs and in similar discussion in the newsgroups alt.rap and rec.music.
A range of post-hoc explanations or [[Folk etymology|folk etymologies]] of the origin of w00t exist, which have possibly influenced its use among certain groups:
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