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origin of pwned?
ASmith84
Member Posts: 979
just wondering where did pwned come from? who thought that replacing o in owned with a p would be cool? if thats the case why dont we start sayin poody instead of hoody or pookie instead of cookie? or isntead of p lets make it g. gecent instead of recent, gail instead of mail. i think this is ridiculous i just want to know why we started sayin pwned instead of owned?
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Its a typo of owned.
"There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
Boba Fett
I was under the impression it meant Player owned ... PWNED! Although it could well be a typo considering how close to the O the P button is, added to that general literacy of 12 year olds on the internet.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
It's from Warcraft. There was a typo that said said so-and-so "has been pwned" instead of owned.
Everything I've read indicates that this is where it came from; a typo that caught on. Please note that P and O are right next to each other on a QWERTY keyboard.
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
Yep, as stated before it's a typo. I think it started in frantic quake match. In quake(incase you've never tried MP in Quake) you have to type very quickly when chatting... unless you wanted to be fragged that it.
it happened when you and i played !!! n00b jk!
:D:D
Can't wait for AoC!
Like you got fragged and died..."okay he owned you. "
But if it was like you got "Boom Headshot....you were pwned"
"It is easier to be cruel than wise. The road to wisdom is long and difficult... so most people just turn out to be assholes" Feng (Christopher Walken)
I believe it originally started as a typo of the word "owned" but as I see it now "pwned" to me means he got pounded and owned at the same exact time therefore "PWNED"
What I want to know is where did "LAWL" come from?
In America I have bad teeth. If I lived in England my teeth would be perfect.
Yes it was a typo...because the letters are so close...started in FPS' (quake/cs/etc.)
See Also: "!!!!11!!1!!"
nah that came from 4chan or whatever those forums are called.
Can't wait for AoC!
Umm..they may have made it popular, but it clearly started a typo.
No...it's not from Warcraft.
I've been hearing the word since the first days of Counterstrike. To my knowledge, it started out as, like you said, a typo on a map that some user created.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
Here's what wiki says:
"The word "pwn" may have arisen and spread as a typo of the word "own", arising from the proximity of the 'p' and 'o' keys on a standard English keyboard; a phenomenon known as fat-finger. Sometime in the 1980's, along with the advent of the hacker phenomenon, "pwned" became a synonym for "hacked" or "taken over by exploitation of a vulnerability." The word "pwn" remains in use as Internet social-culture slang meaning: to take unauthorized control of someone else or something belonging to someone else by exploiting a vulnerability."
Hopes that answers it. Note, its been around since the 80's all you young pups that weren't born until the 90's. LOL
Cheers.
Thats crazy cause i didn't even hear of the word pwned until like 2002 or 2003 and i played games all through the 90's. It seemed to come from nowhere cause of Counter Strike and then in 2004 it suddenly just went mass market with PurePwnage.
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SWG - PrePub9 Jedi mastered all professions - June 26th 2003 > Nov 15th 2005
EVE Online - 24 million SP - May 6th 2003 > Early 2005
PlanetSide - BR20 CR5 - May 23rd 2003 > Sept 2003
WoW fanbois claim everything is from WoW. Actully i remember hearing it while playing Quake.
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-- Jean Rostand