Origin of pwned

Hey guys, I never knew this and I found it interesting. Hope you enjoy:

A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned."

Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned."

It basically means "to own" or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.
"Man, I rock at my job, but I still got a bad evaluation. I was pwned."

OR

"That team totally pwned us."

And Now You Know

hmm, interesting..

i remember when pwned first emerged, not sure what year, but i just remember when people started to use it alot...in counterstrike.

Old news pwns.

Old news pwns even more when it's the first time you hear it.

pr0n was on a IRC channel that mispelled porn and it stayed

urbandictionary.com ...

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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned

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pwned
A Definition in the Urban dictionary, that every useless retard and his dog, has decided to add multiple definitions for (even tho its the same f*&king definition).

YOU'RE NOT FUNNY, the first one is the best, and the rest are cheap copies
"all the tards who added in definitions directly related to the first definition, just got pwned

Suggestion submitted with Request to Delete: "Instead of being a cry baby bitch, he should have recommended the other definitions for deletion."

Source: Orbit, Aug 22, 2003

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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned

also. all of the definitions on the net are wrong. Pwned is actually derived from the name of Lee Jeong Pwn, a legendary Korean gamer who could press 52 keys per second on his keyboard. it goes without saying that he was a fierce warrior in everything from Counter-Strike to Starcraft to The Sims House Party.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned

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Originally Posted by Formula1

urbandictionary.com ...

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BLAH. i was too busy looking for anything funny to c&p from urbandictionary.

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Korean gamer who could press 52 keys per second on his keyboard.

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WTF? :blink:

exactly

52 keys per second? did he use his toes?

maybe he just went ape-shit on his keyboard? :unsure: :lol:

it's no less realistic than "omgit'sfromaWarcraftmap." HI, YOU CAN'T GIVE SOMEBODY CREDIT FOR COINING A TYPO BECAUSE... LOOK, THE O AND P KEYS ARE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER... IT'S A FRICKEN TYPO.

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Originally Posted by twister

pr0n was on a IRC channel that mispelled porn and it stayed

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I say norp when someone is around who can hear me. :shifty:

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Originally Posted by Gam3Guy

I say norp when someone is around who can hear me. :shifty:

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lmfao

btw nice sig, very simplistic i like it :)

I think "Pwned" is a typo of "Owned" that mange to stick and "pr0n" was invented to bypass early word filters. Also stuck around.

hmmm, word filters...didn't think about that till now

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Originally Posted by 3ra1n1ac

Korean gamer who could press 52 keys per second on his keyboard.

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Feck arf. Google has never heard of it and neither have I - 52 keystrokes per second, my arse.

I think most credence lies, obviously, with a common typo that got adopted by gamers.

Altho' the origin I find most compelling is the esoteric account of the 19th century Prague Working Nympho group that charged half as much as their whore contemporaries and eventually gave their services away. They were so energetic and robust in their lovemaking that 3 out of 4 married businessmen that spent the night with them died of heart failure by the morn.

Pwned.

The day 'pwned' gets into the proper dictionaries of the world is the day civilization ends.

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Originally Posted by 3RA1N1AC

it's no less realistic than "omgit'sfromaWarcraftmap." HI, YOU CAN'T GIVE SOMEBODY CREDIT FOR COINING A TYPO BECAUSE... LOOK, THE O AND P KEYS ARE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER... IT'S A FRICKEN TYPO.

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Yup.

Stupid theory, "oh one guy made the kind of typo everybody is prone to do when drunk, and have probably made since the first keyboard saw the light of day, ah yes he must have invented it".

If we can do that I wanna' make sure everybody knows who invented the l33t drunkeness I was spurting a while ago. I made lots of those awesome typos.

Oh n' capt azzhole, I think that was kind of an insult. Should have kept it simple and not gone with "simplistic".

Uh oh.

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11. pwned
a word invented by Al Gore when he created the internet, and thus internet gaming. it is the same as owned but to a higher level. P is 1 letter after O in the alphabet. owned < pwned (and theoretically) < qwned < rwned < etc. etc.
The mailman was pwned by the large dog.

or

The large dog was pwned by the mailman's can of mace.

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:blink:

Best one, I think

Moved to the lounge...for obvious reasons... :cool:

About time. :P

Good night :)

gameworld thread pwned by a mod?

:D

My first ever post in GameboyWorld and the thread gets shifted to the lounge :01:

hijack :cool:

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Originally Posted by Sara

Moved to the lounge...for obvious reasons... :cool:

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I take it all back..the mods do know where Gameworld is. :01:

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Originally Posted by manker

:D

My first ever post in GameboyWorld and the thread gets shifted to the lounge :01:

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