pwned?
 

ok this is a stupid question but im getting pissed of at everyone because they keep saying pwned. if heard of getting Owned but what is the point of Pwned? can anyone explain

RE: pwned?
 

some idiot messed up
and typed p since its next to the o.. and the other person thought it was sweet.. soo they left it go and started a new trend.. kinda like the replacing the 3 for the e.. g3t it npw?

RE: pwned?
 

yeah! thats probably the gayest thing i've ever heard of. thanks for clearing that up, just thought there was some hidden meaning. damn net nerds. lol

RE: 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."

RE: pwned?
 

its the same concept as 'all your base are belong to us' except it was a typo not a translation error

its also used as pwn3d because 3 has been used by 'hackers' (H4X0r$) as an E, and 3 is right above E anyway so it all works out fin3

RE: pwned?
 

you know i never understood the owned, and the all you base are belong to us, but thank you for the clairification. i understood the meaning of owned but not is origins

RE: pwned?
 

whoa....all my freinds are gamers, so PWNed and words like that is part of our vocab....now i feel nerdy....lol...

RE: pwned?
 

lot of people say ownage as well, like they are beating you really badly and "owning" you

RE: pwned?
 

lol you got pwned by the word pwned

RE: pwned?
 

Haha my boyfriend used to play that warcraft game all the time when we first started dating, and his guy friends would play. And i never understood that game...

But I am pretty pro at PacMan for xbox. haha.

I never knew pwned came from that game tho.