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Fast Facts
- Used primarily in online gaming culture
- Believed to derive from a misspelling of the word "owned"
- Usage includes pwnt, pwned, pwnd, pwn3d or powned
- Has spawned Internet show, Pure Pwnage
- Term has pervaded popular culture, appearing in shows such as Hannah Montana and South Park
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Background
According to the Urban Dictionary online, the use of the term pwned comes from a typographical error when a programmer was coding for the Warcraft game. The term was on a map supposedly to show who "owned" the area, but became pwned. Thus, if someone is pwned, they are 'owned' in one way or another by the person or object.Urban Dictionary: Pwned -
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Wikipedia: Pwn
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IGN.com: Online gaming's lexicon of smack talk (2006)
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AlterNet: You've Been "Pwned" (2006)
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Urban Dictionary: Pwned
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getting pwn3d hard again in accounting finals preparation. *sigh*
@jymmysim | November 10, 2009 10:51 AM -
Well pwn3d peeps. They cancelled the screening. But I scored free tix to House of the Devil.
@theeKENye | November 10, 2009 12:27 AM -
Damn! For the first time the system #pwn3d me instead of vice versa! Was getting ready to head home after starting the update process. Whoa!
@aivalli | November 09, 2009 09:13 PM
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Pwnage Compilations
- YouTube: Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
- Metacafe: Pwnage Compilation (Time: 2:50)
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Accidental Pwnage
- YouTube: Kid Owned by a Breakdancer (Time: 0:17)



