![]() ![]() My team is full of stupid newbies, for the win!įinally, here's the earliest FTW I could find in Half-Life Usenet groups, posted 27th August 1999 in : The first Urban Dictionary definition with this meaning is from 27th November 2003, again referencing Half-Life:įor the win, used in half-life games, often sarcastic. Haley: I have trouble following the advice of someone that can't even write a coherant sentence. 14th December 2003:ĮchoEcho: blades it teh suc go with blunt or pierce ftw! 2003 DAoC, Urban Dictionary and Half-Life Even if you were to expand it, it'd expand to online video games in general. Face it, these words have nothing to do with l33tness, and everything to do with DAoC's online community. While I played Everquest, there was almost no talk of pwn or wtfpwn. Meanwhile, "ftw" brings up nothing about for the win. Half of the entrys are related to DAoC or the VN boards. In other words, not really DAoC culture at all (unfortunately).ĭo a google search for "wtfpwn". on top of a great many gaming-related message boards, sites, other mmorpgs, etc. Heh yeah, except every single FPS on the net for the past four or five years or so. I'm not a l33t dude and I say em all the time, hell, even in real life I'll say them. It's not so much l33tness as it is DAoC culture. ![]() The whole PvP aspect of DAOC brings out the l33t dude in people I guess. I swear I had more but those are worst, and people EAT THEM UP and use them all the time. Things that make me gringe every time I see them.įor teh win (Notice the spelled wrong ON PURPOSE) One poster claims the term had been in use in "every single FPS on the net for the past four or five years or so": So much fun~ ^_^Īgain, DAoC is the Dark Age of Camelot game, and the following appeared in a forum for the game discussing "VN Cliches (Or just DAOC in general)" in June 2004. > have time for anything since playing that game. The earliest archive of this internet slang page from 26th October 2005 says:įTW - "For the win" Indicates the end of the game, it is often used to reference the object responsible for victory. "SomethingĮxceedingly retarded just happened, but it seemed to work." "Priest tankįtw!" Or, something exceeedingly retarded just happened, and I hate my It is later explained in on 2nd September 2005:Ībout half the time that it's used, it's extremely sarcastic. Its earliest mention in the Usenet group is from 2nd May 2005: “Camping that spawn FTW!” Believed to originate on Dark Age of Camelot message boards. Used to denote that you're successful in doing something, usually in a sarcastic tone. The earliest definition in Google Books is in Scott Jennings' 2005 Massively Multiplayer Games for Dummies:įTW (For the Win): Sometimes spelled For Teh Win to emphasize its l33tspeak nature. I think that was my first exposure to it. Memories of playing TFC (thats Team Fortress Classic for the non-Halflife guys) and seeing someone spamming "Snipers FTW" everytime they got a headshot. I saw FTW used way before DAOC ever came out. Here's a post on a 25th January 2006 that claims FTW pre-dated Dark Age of Camelot and came from a Half-Life modification: tl drįTW appears to have started in FPS (first-person shooter) computer games such as Half-Life just after or around the turn of the millenium, then spread to MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) such as Dark Age of Camelot ("DAoC") and on to World of Warcraft around 2003-2005, and from there to the rest of the net at large. But how did this take off as FTW on the internet, and actually gather momentum? Let's trace the origins of FTW on the net. For the win originates in the Hollywood Squares television show.
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