Foo - Will somebody explain pwned?

Im an odd duck, I have sat and thunk plenty of thoughts with no luck...
What the hell is pwned?

Properly written, I belive its pwn3d.

It's "hacker speak" for "owned". It like saying "you got burned"!!

be that the case, why is there a p?

http://www.ownedforums.com/pics/albums/wpw-0f/thumb_owned40.jpg

THAT is pwned!

be that the case, why is there a p?
The urban legend is that in an early Japanese shooter game there was a typo where "owned' was spelled "pwned", or in online gaming people type messages so fast and recklessly that they often type "I pwned that noob" by mistake. (EDIT) Other words are often mispelled online too, including "rain" :)

be that the case, why is there a p?
p is hacker speak for the letter 'o'.

Gee didn't we just go through all of this about 3 weeks ago, and three weeks before that, and...

Gee didn't we just go through all of this about 3 weeks ago, and three weeks before that, and...
Yeah...I tried searching for the thread, but I couldn't find it.

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

Yeah...I tried searching for the thread, but I couldn't find it.


I know it was in the "Do not reply' thread... somewhere. And s couple other places in foo as well

If it was in the Do not reply thread, i would not know. i stayed out of that tumor

Even so, I still like the pwned pics.

i'm pretty sure it originated as a deliberate typo by a doom/quake game designer and player who wanted to see if everyone followed the trend? can someone substantiate?

The urban legend is that in an early Japanese shooter game there was a typo where "owned' was spelled "pwned", or in online gaming people type messages so fast and recklessly that they often type "I pwned that noob" by mistake. (EDIT) Other words are often mispelled online too, including "rain" :)


The actual truth was it was in the game Warcraft. I forgot which one, but somewhere in it was a misspelling of the word "Owned", in the context of ownership. Even back then though, "Owned" also meant beating someone in a way that's humiliating/embarassing.

Like when I got bored on a battlefield2 game with some old friends, and threatened one of them that I would kill him at least 60 times in the next hour, without firing a single bullet...and proceeded to do so, as far as actually blowing things off of cliffs into him using c4 charges and such....that would be considered "Owned".

...actually, I think the proper term for what happened to him was "violated".

The actual truth was it was in the game Warcraft. I forgot which one, but somewhere in it was a misspelling of the word "Owned", in the context of ownership. Even back then though, "Owned" also meant beating someone in a way that's humiliating/embarassing.
According to the urban dictionary, its origin is in debate whether it was Warcraft or Quake.

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

A picture is worth a thousand words...


http://home.comcast.net/~doorframe/fark/pwn3d.jpg

I believe Pwned was started by a penny arcade columnist back in the day.

Why I know this, I don't know.

When exactly was "the day"? Was it a specific era or a nondescript blip in time?

I'm still trying to figure out what "LOL" means...

There's like a hundred hilarious pwnd pictures in this thread:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=135817

It look me a really long time to figure out Laugh Out Loud
and LBS

most of the acronyms escape me. I'm not really a LOL kind of gal. More of a "hehe". prehistoric I know! Tell me about it...took me a solid week to figure out what LBS stood for...back when I was lurking about! Finally had to come right out and ask what OCP ment....forgot already.

most of the acronyms escape me. I'm not really a LOL kind of gal. More of a "hehe". prehistoric I know! Tell me about it...took me a solid week to figure out what LBS stood for...back when I was lurking about! Finally had to come right out and ask what OCP ment....forgot already.OCP? Omigod, Cycleprincess!!!

It look me a really long time to figure out Laugh Out Loud
and LBS
I was, and still am useless at figuring out all of these abbreviations, but I got WTF, straight away...go figure!!!!

wtf came fast for me. I eventually asked somebody what lol ment. LBS i had to figure out, maybe i will start a thread just about abbreviated internet words

The actual truth was it was in the game Warcraft. I forgot which one, but somewhere in it was a misspelling of the word "Owned", in the context of ownership. Even back then though, "Owned" also meant beating someone in a way that's humiliating/embarassing.

Like when I got bored on a battlefield2 game with some old friends, and threatened one of them that I would kill him at least 60 times in the next hour, without firing a single bullet...and proceeded to do so, as far as actually blowing things off of cliffs into him using c4 charges and such....that would be considered "Owned".

...actually, I think the proper term for what happened to him was "violated".

There are 2 main accepted theorys of pwned which can be found on Urbandicitionary.com and wikipedia.com

The quake theory is just that the word owned was just mispronounced by a high ranking player.

The second theory takes place on either warcraft or starcraft. no one knows which but being a starcraft fan i would hope it would be SC that takes the fame. It goes on to say that a map was built that accedently exclaimed "you were pwned" when you lost, instead of "you were Owned"

http://www.funny-games.biz/pictures/owned/owned-puddle.jpg


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/ov3rdos3/bike-crash.jpg
http://www.funny-games.biz/pictures/owned/pwned-bike.jpg
http://www.funny-games.biz/pictures/owned/ownedbyagirl.jpg
http://www.funny-games.biz/pictures/owned/justin.jpg
http://www.funny-games.biz/pictures/owned/cockpit.jpg

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see: http://www.omgpwned.net/ for actuals

HA HA... OMGpwned! :lol:

EDIT: AND TriPwned all in the same post! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

http://members.lycos.nl/linkdata/images/owned.gif http://http://pix.segfault.cz/gfy/owned/spaceace-gfy-pamplona-owned.jpg

Forum poster just got owned:
http://ptc.hmstudios.net/owned.jpg

http://www.starterupsteve.com/funny12/owned_beer.jpg

http://www.starterupsteve.com/funny12/owned_calc.jpg

Cops get owned by savvy homeowner
http://www.starterupsteve.com/funny12/roundlikeashot.jpg



http://www.starterupsteve.com/funny12/100_geraldo_rivera.jpg

Please, if you are going to post pictures, keep them appropriate!

Thank you

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http://www.starterupsteve.com/funny12/158.jpg http://www.starterupsteve.com/funny12/3.jpg http://www.devincomiskey.com/owned.jpg http://kyokoshi.free.fr/stuff/PWNED.jpg http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/pwned-20832.jpg http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/pwned-20536.jpg http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/pwned-15892.jpg

Please, if you are going to post pictures, keep them appropriate!

Thank you

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http://aurores.polaires.free.fr/13.jpg

http://aurores.polaires.free.fr/27.jpg http://aurores.polaires.free.fr/byebyecar.jpg http://aurores.polaires.free.fr/owned4.jpg http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/images/dee_pwned.jpg http://own3ed08.tripod.com/numero_dos/ownedworkporn.jpg

You've been TriPowned AGAIN! :lol:

is that pee?

There are 2 main accepted theorys of pwned which can be found on Urbandicitionary.com and wikipedia.com

The quake theory is just that the word owned was just mispronounced by a high ranking player.

The second theory takes place on either warcraft or starcraft. no one knows which but being a starcraft fan i would hope it would be SC that takes the fame. It goes on to say that a map was built that accedently exclaimed "you were pwned" when you lost, instead of "you were Owned"

Reason I buy the warcraft one is that the word showed up well before starcraft, and was right about time when warcraft II came out. I've seen that word for years. pwned was the original, now you see pwnt. I find pwnt to just be imbecile keyboard scrawlings from a deficient mind...as I do most variants of owned aside from pwned. 0wn3d....only for parody sake, otherwise I shall get my C4 charges ready and proceed to play mousetrap with the fool that starts this next time I'm on BF2.

seeing that im a really cool multi lvl EQ'er (did i say that out load?) I thought i knew all the slang, LBS? it took me a long time to figure LOFL. and i never saw pwned till i found this riding forum.

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OWNED

Pwned relates to the really old manual typewriters. On the QWERTY keyboards "p" and "o" are next to each other on the top row or letters. A common typo would be to press the "p" instead of an "o". This could happen at anytime on any keyboard. But happend more often on the older manual keyboards which required alot of finger pressure. So, this is the sort of a word play type thing devised by geeks/nerds.

http://www.angelalansbury.net/images/typewriter.jpg

There was a perfect picture I saw a couple years ago that would be perfect for this. It was in a rugby match and some guy had reached over his opponents head from behind and had hooked and embedded two fingers fully into his eye-sockets up to the 1st knuckle and was pulling his head back. Anyone have this picture?

I don't, and I hope no one else does.

What about the b-ball player who's crotch is resting on the defender's face as he does a tomahawk dunk?