pwnd?

[viennagreen]

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]

Pwned = Owned. Probably originated from Counter-Strike.

[CWolf]

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]

More likely to be 15 year old gamers than 2+2ers.

[Bigwig]

It's incredible geek internet speak. The day I actually use it I'll close up shop on the real world permanently.

[DasLeben]

The worst is when you start saying "pwned" in real life. I would know...I do. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Nick B.]

web page

[flo]

Yep, just like "me = teh rox" or "u = teh sux".

[flo]

Did you move from ring to stt?

[henrikrh]

th|5 7hr34D 5uxx0rz, l8er n00bs.


someone had to do it.