old timers who flew airwarrior and dawn of aces: origin of bwahaha?

[crog]

who is still around that knows?

[icepac]

I first saw it on Excite's "virtual places" in late 1993.

Never really liked it because it sounds disrespectful.

[Max]

Sub-genus of "Muahahaha"

[SB]

Now Max would know this personally 

The Shadow used a signature evil laugh as part of its presentation. The Shadow was a radio program from the 30's

[crog]

I first saw it on Excite's "virtual places" in late 1993.

Never really liked it because it sounds disrespectful.

Thanks icepac, thats a pretty good reference. yeah, it is disprectful.
I first saw usage of that meme in airwarrior around the same time. lots of usenet geeks flying then

[morfiend]

Now Max would know this personally 

The Shadow used a signature evil laugh as part of its presentation. The Shadow was a radio program from the 30's

  Funny SB,Max told me you used to come over to listen to The Shadow when ever it was on!  Ah! thats how you knew it was the signature laugh!!!!



   

[crog]

I pose this question based on the hypothesis the now famous meme may have originated in airwarror and spread to usenet around 1989.

bwahaha, the obvious derivative of muhaha? where did the bw come from?

[SB]

BW = Bigweek

[seano]

flew air warrior till it died

[crog]

played aw a bunch on a friends genie account 89-90. 95-96 on aol.
doa 98-00. wb off and on. ah off and on. any doa'ers still around?

[aztec]

Played dawn Of Aces from it's inception till 2000, which wasn't very long....wish HTC would put as much effort into WWI arena here.

[icepac]

A few years ago, I tracked down a few former AW guys who last played at WB and posted obscure references to thier blogs or comments to thier web pages designed to get them back into the arena to receive more pepperidge and a couple came.

Sadly, they logged before I could arrange the kill.

Mburns from DOA showed up in warbirds in 2005 and I almost got to where he was upping but missed out.

I wish we could have the zeppelin in WWI.

[crog]

the f2b and zeppliin were my favorites. had loads of fun driving a zepplin into a furball. given the cursing and taunting by those I shot down, my antics were not taken well. never took any of it seriously, I liked getting baked and having fun. my usual response was "bwahahaha".

that expression of laughter was never meant to be disrectful.

[Oldman731]

who is still around that knows?

I put this question to the remaining Bigweek folks.  Their responses thus far:

Fidd:  "Server priviledges on AW were known as "bwana powers" from the Swahili. Only
a guess, but it may have evolved from that if Mage et al were using it to
laugh at the (non-bwana) players?"

Tex:  "it would be on the data from the GEnie forums. I'm not sure they
survive though."

Grizzly:  "I believe it was BigWeek, or at least the denizens of it. As I remember,
BWAHAHA (perhaps more accurately BUAHAHA) was supposed to represent a
sheep doing the MUAHAHA laugh by adding a BAAA sound prefix. I'm not
sure but if I had to guess I would say it was DeadDuck's doing."

Dipsy:  "I'd respectfully call on me learned friend to prdouce the said Duck so
that he may offer an opinion on the subject as it remains the people's
conjecture that there was no sheep-related subcontect to the BWAHAHA.

I'd further suggest that it was just a variation on the evil laugh:
specifically an evil laugh that didn't have time to generate an
introductary "M" and had to leap to the explosive "B" because the
response to whatever ridiculous post had inspired it, had to be that
much more immediate.

I could be wrong of course. I've been wrong before."

- oldman

[Vraciu]

I pose this question based on the hypothesis the now famous meme may have originated in airwarror and spread to usenet around 1989.

bwahaha, the obvious derivative of muhaha? where did the bw come from?

I "invented" it independently long before the Internet and recall using it first "online" around 1981 on modem dial-up BBS.    Used it in Tradewars, etc.   It was independently derived by many long before the Internet was popularized or Air Warrior even created.   Nobody can claim credit for something like that.  Too nebulous an etymology.