i cant explain it to my friend very well, can u help me out?
2007-05-23 14:34:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Owned was demeaning Internet chat in computers games and chat until someone made a map in Quake and one in another game... i forget which one... and they both had a typo in it on the map or bot-chat where owned was mis-spelled in a phrase something like 'you just got pwned...'; similar to the reason why AYBABTU (All Your Base Are Belong To Us -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AYBABTU) is funny, a typo instead of poor comprehension of English helped make this phrase popular on the net.
Example: If it's Red 8 and 0 Blue on a quake 3 capture the flag (CTF) server then saying blue got pwned is an understatement.
If a similar beating took place on Doom or Duke Nukem then Blue would have simply been 'owned'... because it would have been in an earlier time frame.
2007-05-23 14:55:46 · answer #1 · answered by Tom B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
owned and pwned are really the same thing.
You see o and p are right next to each other on the keyboard and that is how the term "Pwned" came about some one misspelled owned and voila! Pwned.
Thats pretty much all I can dig up. I hope it helps.
2007-05-23 21:47:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its the same thing.
Owned = Typed on normal Language
Pwned = Typed in L337 (leet)
To find more about Leet language, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
2007-05-23 21:39:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think its just your friend who cant understand you that well.
2007-05-23 21:40:44 · answer #4 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋