WTB or WTS. These terms I was using in maplestory and it probably came before that as well. For anyone who doesnt know: Waiting to Buy or Waiting to Sell.
I think the closest today is deleted?
I keep hearing that.
I deleted him!!!
Ok? hehe
I always thought it was " wanting to buy or sell ". Guess its the same thing really.
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And here I thought it was “want” or “where”
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Well before the acronym I was seeing people spell out “Waiting to sell” a bunch and then formed “WTS” BUT they could have been derps and I just followed them Haha.
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Those come from real life, from before the days of the internet. They go back to printed want ads in newspapers.
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It was “slang” for pvp kills in early online FPS games. Quake, Doom, etc.
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And I think it comes from the actual military before that.
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Frag is generally shorthand for a fragmentation grenade.
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Most of this stuff came from the 80’s. Hackers used “leetspeek” shorthand to get around detection. As the internet expanded it bled over to chatrooms and forums.
A lot of shorthand was used in Classified Ads in newspapers, and naturally moved over into the same ad spaces online.
Characters on a screen were “toons” from cartoons. This shorthand was popularized in the late 80’s from the movie “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” which all cartoons are referred to as toons.
Because VOIP was either rare or nonexistent in 90s games (I guess you yelled in LAN parties, lol) typing fast shorthand was the only way to communicate.
Gamers adopted this form of comms as video games bled into online multiplayers.
Kinda funny that someone saying 1337 or pwnd is something their grandfather likely typed almost 40 years ago.
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Yeah there is a lot of the lingo that has slowly started to fade out. I can’t remember the last time I saw pwnd, 1337, or even something like roflcopter used.
Some of the new stuff I see, seems most of it comes from streaming, doesn’t even make a lick of sense to me these days.
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for PST, I always used to think they meant whispering. Which they kind of did, and it always worked, but I sounded it out: “Psssst.” Like your trying to get someones attention for a secret ur about to tell. Psst.
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About ‘toon’, some of us have been switching back to ‘character’ to describe one of our… ……guys?
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Toon came from Toontown Online I’m pretty sure
From what? What is that?
I always assumed it was from the hundred of anime fans on RP servers where I was. ** rolls eyes **
Wasn’t toon originally used in Who Framed Rodger rabbit? Or Cool World?
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I would guess the term " toon " goes much farther back than either one of those. Especially considering the term cartoon had been around a very long time.
The only RPG I played in 2000s till 2012 was WoW, so I got all the terms from WoW, or I created them myself.
For example, I thought it was a good idea to use LFG for Looking For Group, instead of typing out the latter all the time, I also short formed all the dungeons and used their initials as reference, and I remember so many whispers of people asking me what i meant when saying in Trade Chat “Paladin DPS LFG ZF” Where mostly you would see “Looking for more Tank Healer and damager” Or if making a raid you would see “Looking for more Tank, Healerx2, Damagersx6, for Upper Blackrock” for making 10 man UBRS.
Then I added PST(please send tell) in chat for whisper. For after using the
WTS(Want to Sell) or WTB(Want to Buy) for trade chat. Before the Auction House was used.
Never used toon, only char.
Of course since this game use to be only information you got were from your own server which mine was NA-Burning Blade-PvP, the definition or the where about of these acronyms are all random.
But for me, I generally made up most of them, to try and make my typing to a minimum since it was the first MMORPG I ever played and the only computer game I really played before WoW was WC3, I was still quite new to computer games that had were more than single person game.
There was no measurement for fps at the time and latency was generally at 120-250ms for the norm for someone on east coast, since all US servers were only in California. If I had to guess my fps back then would have been around 5-15 fps, and it took about 3 minutes to load the game up from the Windows XP desktop.
/camp is a EQ command i still use to log out in wow today.
Just a game calling incomings/contacts. WWIIOnline that I played years ago. Every game that has repeated information sent out, humans will shorten and abbreviate as short as possible of course.
Heh, so do I.