The history of "PWN, PWNED"

[TheUnforgiven1]

Where the hell did the word come from? and what does it mean? did someone mispell own owned?

PWN is a very common term used by gamers, how ever, can anyone pernounce it? its usually pernounced as ~Pa - awn, or simply pawn~ but in fact there is no real way to pernounce it. I have heared every theory there is for the word PWN like "its supposed to be "own" but the p is like an o with blood dripping from it" or "PWN means " Player - owned" or the theory that "the word owned was banned froma forum so some group of people used pwned to get around the admins ban method"

I have heared almost everything, and its all wrong lol... it originated when a map designer messed up on a victory/defeat message for a map.Its happened on several occasions on different games. But This happened in both starcraft and warcraft and even the unreal games in which is is more well known. read this here

pwned
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."

the fact though is..... not to many people even understand what pwn means.... its basically just owned, or saying like "im better then you, or i beat you" its basically just been used in 1337 language which is gamers language known as Elite. Gamers started to use it after it was misused in the game. Its obviously just a term that caught on which everyone saw it. Now its used all the time. I use the world all the time myself, I like it in fact. and I pernounce it "pawn" or "pwin" either way, there is no wrong or right way to say it .

I hope this helps clerify the use of the words pwn, pwnage, pwnt(pwned past tense), pwned , Ect you may have heard.

~TU1~

[hype]

Nice, I was looking for this...

[TheUnforgiven1]

Barnabus had mentioned about what it means in a thread, so i decided to post the answer

off topic - I like your signature hype, i watch the wwe

[skylight]

my gf asked me what pwn means too.
i told her it is something like Owned !!

There are various explanations from wikipedia. check it out.
Typically it is created from typo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn

[TheUnforgiven1]

Originally Posted by skylight

my gf asked me what pwn means too.
i told her it is something like Owned !!

There are various explanations from wikipedia. check it out.
Typically it is created from typo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn

ya, they got about everything there too lol.....

but ya... I would say it around my girlfriend, but shed be like "wtf you guys are weird" so i just refrain from using gaming terms around her lol.. all she knows is super mario, she has a snes but its broken, shes like heartbroken over it.. which is kinda sad because its true... liek the power is burnt out lol, she needs to get it fixed

[Matt_the_Shark]

lol, awesome, TU1

another way I like to think about it is when I say that I PWN someone, I'm basically saying "I OWN YOU!!! YOU ARE MY PAWN NOW BEOTCH!!!" or something like that

so,

pwn-age (pawn - age): to be made a pawn of someone's; to be owned

[TheUnforgiven1]

lol.... I just think of it as being owned.... or being defeated... when my clan on xbox introduced me to the word I was like... wtf.... what is pwned? I assume you guys are mispelling owned? I had NO IDEA what the word ment.. but that was like.. what was it.. 3 years ago? 4? When xbox came out... I got xbox live so thats why im in the clan for it... I dunno.. I was just so confused and they were like "dude please tell me your kidding...." I was like seriously lost lol.

I hope what I have poster here will help clear up those who are also lost or confused. I use the word all the time now, for almost 3 years now I think... but yea, I like it

[shotgun]

nicely found out!! i never knew what this actually ment..thats why iv never used it. i didnt wana ask what it menr either..cuz it seemed like every1 else did..and it make sound like an amature... just by looking how people had used it i could figure out it means something easy...like some people postt it in the arcade..so i suppose it means like you own it..to show how easy and simple things are. a guess it came from some one misspelling owned..jus like theunforgiven1 said.i wonder who it was..and how it got soo popular

[TheUnforgiven1]

Originally Posted by shotgun

nicely found out!! i never knew what this actually ment..thats why iv never used it. i didnt wana ask what it menr either..cuz it seemed like every1 else did..and it make sound like an amature...

well thats pretty much why I had posted this, to inform those of what it ment

like I said, I didnt know what it ment at one time and everyone got freaked out with me lol.. I was like "uhh....ok... sorry I dont know what this means...." and so ya... now I know what it means, and now I am enlightening people who dont

and I dont know who exactally the guy was, but I am sure I can find it somewhere. I bet who ever it was felt like an idiot when he did it lol, now that everyone uses it he probally feels like a "god" or "legend" lol... or something like that

[Gin_N_Juice]

"pwn": A typo-deliberate version of own, a slang term often used to express superiority over others that can be used maliciously, depending on the situation. This could also be spelled "0\/\/n3d" or "pwn3d," among other variations.

Slang words made easy for the retards - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...n/kidtalk.mspx