Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] 3l337 license plate

["Ryan Thornton" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I think it's at least as old as Quake, that was the first game I
remember seeing it...  And it really took off during the
Halflife/Counterstrike years.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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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