Game Guides Archive
Thread: PWNED?
Redondo
Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:20 pm
#14
I thinka lot of the l33t speak or any computer speak substituting numbers for letters is rooted in hacking from the late 80s early 90s when hackers would use numbers to bypass whatever. I dont really know anything about hacking or why exactly they did it, but I think that is where its origins are I believe.
Kakabus
Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:51 pm
#15
Tells you how noob I am....I thought PWNED meant...pawned or something to that effect...Like a chess term or something...As in if someone killed a knight/queen/etc with a pawn they got PAWNED....I guess it still means the same though
giveen
Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:46 pm
#17
according to the official hackers dictionary........pwned is not one of them
http://www.mcs.kent.edu/docs/general/hackersdict/02Entries
Grisbilen
Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:01 pm
#18
Derlok wrote:
ohhh, well i guess that means i got PWNED
Grisbilen wrote:
Derlok wrote:
It came from Warcraft 3, the computer was supposed to say you got owned, but a misspelling made it pwned
It isa bit older than that game mate, so
Rofl
Derlok
Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:02 pm
#19
Kakabus wrote:
Tells you how noob I am....I thought PWNED meant...pawned or something to that effect...Like a chess term or something...As in if someone killed a knight/queen/etc with a pawn they got PAWNED....I guess it still means the same though
Dude, i thought the same thing at first, till i found out, so dont feel too bad
kypus10
Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:37 pm
#20
I heard on ESPN once that "pwned" is Hawaiin for "flowhole", so you can all make of that what you want- I don't speak Hawaiin but maybe some other poster might. 
Iawo
Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:26 pm
#21
I first saw pwned way back when Quakeworld was new... if that gives you any clue how old the term is. I have heard that it may have originated during the Wolf3d and doom days.
corrfleete
Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:05 pm
#22
kakabus wrote:
"Tells you how noob I am....I thought PWNED meant...pawned or something to that effect...Like a chess term or something...As in if someone killed a knight/queen/etc with a pawn they got PAWNED....I guess it still means the same though"
hahahaha...you're giving them too much credit...you really think people that use the word pwned have the intellect to play chess?...buwahahahahaha....
flame away, l33ts.../rolleyes
Malonesa
Tataomm
Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:32 am
#25
Didn't the developers of the original Warcraft misspell Owned with a 'P'? I believe that this is how pwned came to be.
RockNwO
Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:40 am
#26
Type "OWNED" really fast a couple hundred times without correction.
It came from early FPS games like Rainbow 6 I think. People just had to type it in so fast after they killed someone, that most of the time they typed pwned instead of owned.
Since p has a circle in it just like an o does, I think it sort of stuck.
Its bad to get Owned, but you never want to get PwNeD!