"pwn"?
#1 Guest_Azathoth II_*
Posted 28 April 2005 - 09:58 AM
#2
Posted 28 April 2005 - 10:41 AM
#3
Posted 28 April 2005 - 10:45 AM
#4
Posted 28 April 2005 - 11:28 AM
#5
Posted 28 April 2005 - 11:34 AM
owning was the first gaming madness, after a while people got bored, and changed it to powning.. then they changed it back to owning. now we get everything, even the so-called-made-up-by-anubis word spooning.
so you are owned, powned and spooned =D
#6
Posted 28 April 2005 - 11:38 AM
#7
Posted 28 April 2005 - 11:41 AM
Neo_Genesis, on Apr 28 2005, 12:34 PM, said:
owning was the first gaming madness, after a while people got bored, and changed it to powning.. then they changed it back to owning. now we get everything, even the so-called-made-up-by-anubis word spooning.
so you are owned, powned and spooned =D
"Own3d" is adding a leet E.
Also, Neo, that's half correct, and half in correct. =D
#8
Posted 28 April 2005 - 11:47 AM
#9
Posted 28 April 2005 - 02:53 PM
#10
Posted 28 April 2005 - 02:57 PM
Golden Legacy, on Apr 28 2005, 03:53 PM, said:
I sometimes wish I could be as smart as you. About the pwn thing? I have no idea who made it. Some idiot made it up, I guess.
#11
Posted 28 April 2005 - 04:17 PM
#12
Posted 28 April 2005 - 04:32 PM
#13
Posted 28 April 2005 - 04:59 PM
Neo_Genesis, on Apr 28 2005, 08:34 PM, said:
owning was the first gaming madness, after a while people got bored, and changed it to powning.. then they changed it back to owning. now we get everything, even the so-called-made-up-by-anubis word spooning.
so you are owned, powned and spooned =D
I know that! I type pwn on purpose too you know! And you are fork'd!
#14
Posted 28 April 2005 - 06:37 PM
© Andross and all accompanying aliases and/or legal names FOREVAH!
As nick mentioned, it was a spelling mistake that turned into a LUE Fad pretty much. It was to make fun of the guy. Some people use it seriously, but it's more often used just as ridicule.
#16
Posted 29 April 2005 - 04:37 PM
I am Anubis, this is Pwnage, Anubis + Pwnage = You've been Pwned.
It's quite simple really, there's no reason to question it, it's just a part of everyone life. I pwn them. ;D
#17
Posted 29 April 2005 - 10:24 PM
Properly, it's pronounced like "own," but people these days seem pronounce the text as they see it on the screen, so now that the word is becoming more commonly pronouced "p'own" or "poon". Kinda irritating, but that's just the way things go.
It was not originally intentional, the "p" was not originally pronounced, and was not born in the fiery bowels of the 40l3rz' culture of misspelling words (though it did become popular there). Now that that's settled, I can go to bed.
#18
Posted 30 April 2005 - 03:47 AM
After that it just caught on, people thought it was an actual word and started using it, that's the REAL origins.
#19
Posted 11 May 2005 - 05:29 PM
And yes, I do realize that this thread is more or less dead.
#21
Posted 11 May 2005 - 08:25 PM
I was running to my first period class because I was late(for the 3rd time this week) and stopped by the water fountain near my class to get a drink. I looked up to see a poster above the fountain and written over it was the word"PWNED". Now I came here to see a question about the it?!? Coincidence.
#22
Posted 12 May 2005 - 02:59 PM
Papercut, on May 11 2005, 07:22 PM, said:
Any idiot can post on Wikipedia. The etymology of pwn is apparently just a big collection of all the stories out there, but be weary with other things, since it's very easy to come across misinformation.
#23
Posted 13 May 2005 - 01:47 AM
#24
Posted 13 May 2005 - 08:11 AM
nick1presta, on Apr 28 2005, 03:32 PM, said:
That sounds most likely than any other variation of it. I thought it'd be something like that.
Well, in the mean time, where did 1337 come from? From my side of the story, 1337 stands for leet which is a stupid way to say elite. =/
I d0n'7 533 h0w 7yping li3k 7hi5 m4k35 y0u 3lit3 th0ugh.
(I don't see how typing like this makes you elite, though.)
#25
Posted 13 May 2005 - 08:36 AM
#26
Posted 13 May 2005 - 02:15 PM
At least that's how one of the stories go, though most aren't too different. The rest is just one gray mess of it gradually becoming less and less legible and slowly entering mainstream use, to be forever know as 1337 5p34|<.
#27
Posted 13 May 2005 - 08:17 PM
#28
Posted 14 May 2005 - 12:58 AM
"Click the couch and win a free toilet paper roll" :)
#29
Posted 14 May 2005 - 12:46 PM
Those "Get <insert product here> free!" things really do work. They really started to explode in popularity when advertisers saw that freeipods.com really worked well, but Gratis Network, the company running it, had some success with previous endeavors of the sort. Most people can't manage to complete the trial offers they're required to complete *and* get five friends to sign up and complete one trial offer each.
So in the end, the people that have lots of time and lots of friends get lots of free stuff, the advertisers make pretty decent profits (since completed trial offers earn more than banner ads), and the companies that give those trial offers are more likely to get customers than with print advertising at a much lower cost. So in the end, everybody's happy, except for friendless jerks.
#30
Posted 15 May 2005 - 11:24 PM
#32
Posted 18 May 2005 - 04:00 AM
I pwn you all.
#33
Posted 18 May 2005 - 04:34 AM
Yeah, this has been discussed to death and beyond.