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This is from an industry news email I get everyday. So now the rest of the world knows about w00t it is no longer cool. I will go back to using groovy and neato.

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w00t’s Up!
Nevin E. Adams – 12/13/2007
If that headline looks like a typo to you, you may be dating yourself.

Believe it or not, that “word” (w00t) has been picked as Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year – even though it isn’t (yet) in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

The term (it hardly seems fitting to call it a “word”, but Merriam-Webster terms it an interjection) finds its origins in online gaming forums. It’s one of those online acronyms (not surprisingly, since it was chosen by visitors to Merriam-Webster’s website – stands for “we owned the other team.” Owned, in this case, meaning overpowered/beat/defeated soundly, not “owned” in the George Steinbrenner sense. Supposedly Julia Roberts uttered w00t in the movie “Pretty Woman” cheering at polo game (who knew? I thought she was imitating a train).

And yes, one might well expect that the acronym would more precisely be presented as woot – but in the online world, the double "o" in the word is instead usually represented by double zeroes. Gamers frequently substitute numbers and symbols for the letters they resemble, resulting in what is called "l33t speak" — that's "leet" when spoken, short for "elite" to the rest of the world.

As for using w00t in a sentence (properly) – just insert it where you might normally say “yay.” As in, “w00t! I won the Word of the Year contest!”
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Although, that description does make online gamers look kind of like a bunch of dorky dumbasses, LOL. Which is probably true.