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I feel strongly in support of author's "dance theory". Especially after watching the clip "Whoot, There it is".
I am a Russian-speaking guy from Ukraine. I do computers starting from 1980. I wrote my first program in 1970. What is important to know is that before 80-th Russians designed their own computers and the programming was on the rise as well as hacking. I am not a gamer though.
Now, if I would be asked to translate above phrase "Whoot, There it is", the outcome might have been "???, ???". By substituting W for "?" (which is how it sounds in Russian) we would get "Wot, wot". As it is obvious, Russian word "???" in general means "there it is", "here it is" being frequently accompanied with a pointing gesture (as the folks in the clip do). If I am looking for someone in a crowd, I might exclaim addressing my companion, "??? ??", "There he is". A woman might invite someone to admire her features, or dress, turning around and saying "???", "Here I am". We might say "???-???" in confirmation of something like "Yes, yes". In Russian possible to substitute "??-??" for "???-???", but American English has different meaning for "Dah dah". The major idea is, we use "???" to point at something/someone, or to attract someone's attention to something/someone, or to confirm/strengthen something. There are other uses, those above are sufficient.
Now, I do not think it would be my job to explain how and when the Russian word "???" was incorporated in American English. But certainly there have been plenty of opportunities. Why not to start from 1945 when American and Russian soldiers met in Berlin?
As for the variant "w00t", it seems simple to me. First, it was a nice touch to invent l00k, with zeros representing wide-opened eyes. Now, it is all the same in whoot/woot. If I found a treasure and want to show someone, here I am, using "w00t" with excitement and wide-opened eyes. For gamers also would be a good expression, as an exclamation of victory, "??? ????!" - "Here it is for you!" - "w00t" - the wide-opened eyes of dying enemy.
Final word on hacking. It is not my intention to leave an impression that Russians invented it. Yet there was whole epoch, during which Russians on a basis of everyday duties exercised backward engineering in computer industry. If there is such a thing as international hacker culture, one should suggest some significant contribution to it from Russian part of the world.