Origins of Popular Web 2.0 terms

Posted January 9, 2009
Filed under: Web 2.0 |

ReadWriteWeb has a great post here that comes up out with the origins of popular Web 2.0 terms. My favorite one has to be the one for FTW:

FTW is most commonly understood as standing for “For the Win!” The Urban Dictionary says it entered popular culture via the TV show Hollywood Squares. The show featured two contestants playing a trivia based tic-tac-toe game where the squares had celebrities siting in them who “helped” answer the questions.

The final question to complete the tic-tac-toe was asked “for the win…” The show ran from 1966 through 1981 but there were several attempts to revive it.