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viennagreen
05-24-2005, 04:07 AM
what does "pwnd" mean? everyone always says it, but somehow i missed where it originated from...
i was playing a $10 game tonight, putting together a "teaching by example" hand history to email off, and two knuckleheads were at the table typing "pwnd" in the chat box whenever someone got beat.
i'm guessing they were 2+2 (though, their play didn't indicate it)
Shillx
05-24-2005, 04:15 AM
Pwned = Owned. Probably originated from Counter-Strike.
CWolf
05-24-2005, 04:16 AM
Being an internet gamer, I can tell you that "pwned" originated (obviously) from the word "owned".
How it became "pwned" is derived from the game "Quake", where some idiot typed "i pwned u" with a 'p' instead of an 'o' as a typo.
For whatever reason, it stuck.
lutefisk
05-24-2005, 04:17 AM
More likely to be 15 year old gamers than 2+2ers.
Bigwig
05-24-2005, 04:17 AM
It's incredible geek internet speak. The day I actually use it I'll close up shop on the real world permanently.
DasLeben
05-24-2005, 05:29 AM
The worst is when you start saying "pwned" in real life. I would know...I do. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Nick B.
05-24-2005, 05:36 AM
web page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwned)
Yep, just like "me = teh rox" or "u = teh sux".
Did you move from ring to stt?
henrikrh
05-24-2005, 07:20 AM
th|5 7hr34D 5uxx0rz, l8er n00bs.
someone had to do it.
henrikrh
05-24-2005, 08:51 AM
and... wrong forum btw
zambonidrivr
05-24-2005, 08:53 AM
penis waker, noob, dumbfu**
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