On March 30th, 2004, the single-serving site was registered, which featured an animated GIF of an ASCII helicopter with the abbreviations "ROFL" and "LOL" as blades. On January 11th, 2004, the earliest known use of the term was posted by user SteniS in a thread on the Inc Gamers Warcraft III forum about strategies against various Warcraft III units.Ī Wikipedia entry for "Roflcopter" by user Grue claims that the term originated on the flash website Newgrounds, but does not provide a citation as evidence. According to an Urban Dictionary submission by user Brother Laz, the word "ROFLcopter" originated in a web forum for the online strategy game Warcraft III as a slang term for the gyrocopter flying machine unit, which were often mass produced by players for trolling purposes.
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