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On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Mike Miller wrote:
Anyway, the thing I'd like to know is if there is a definitive or at
least convincing etymology for pwn or pwned. I'm sure it came from own
and owned (and from obtaining root access without permission), but why
was the 'o' replaced with a 'p'? One suggestion is that the p-key is
next to the o-key, and I can believe that, but someone must have looked
into this. People usually do searches of old usenet archives for clues.
If this is true, this is probably the answer, unless pwned was being used
before this "misspelling" first appeared in Warcraft:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned
A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game
called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the
computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been
owned."
Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned."
Mike
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