On December 28th, 2008, Urban Dictionary entry was recognized and featured by the staff as 'Urban Word of the Day.' In June 2010, Google introduced a tutorial widget named Protips.apk for its Android mobile operating system. On September 21st, 2007, the popular webcomic series Penny Arcade ran a cartoon strip titled 'The Protip.'
Often used in internet forums to criticize new members if they break the forum rules.īy the early-to-mid 2000s, the term 'protip' had become adopted by a wide range of online news publications as a catchall in advice columns and troubleshooting articles, not to mention its widespread usage as the name of online resources that offer computer and IT-related information, including, and, all of which have since gone offline. To distill important knowledge about a subject and share it with those new to said subject. On October 12th, 2004, Urban Dictionary user Shifty Eyed Goat submitted the earliest known entry for 'Protip,' defined as: Although Stine created the image as a satirical commentary on the oftentimes redundant language used by video game journalists in gameplay tips and walkthrough guides, many members of Doomworld and other video game fans soon began passing it around as if it were a digitally scanned image from an actual GamePro article.
