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Posted: 8/24/2004 12:07:51 PM EDT

Maybe I'm just not "with it" like some of you. I can't get hep to that rap so can someone explain what it means and why on earth people use the term?

Edited to add silly emoticons.

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:10:21 PM EDT

[#1]

It means you have been beaten quite badly and had your tucus handed to you.
In other words: you got your ass whupped.

It started in the online games (probably Counter Strike), I do believe.

Kharn

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:10:22 PM EDT

[#2]

Shut down. For example, some idiot comes on here bragging about how their car can whoop the shit out of everyone else's, and a board member takes the time to research statistics and prove them completely wrong, thus throwing it back in their face and exposing them for the dickless wonder that they are.

That's just an example, though.

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:11:02 PM EDT

[#3]

It is to "dominate" or "diss" very harshly

there are variations on the spelling as well, ie pwned or pwn3d, even PWN

just think of it as " I own you"

You use it when you smack some one down.

web

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:11:43 PM EDT

[#4]

Good question - I've been wondering too. Maybe it's a slavery reference.

It often seems linked to the practice of intentional misspelling - another mysterious practice.

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:12:23 PM EDT

[#5]

Schooled

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:13:57 PM EDT

[#6]

From the Jargon File:

owned

1. [cracker slang; often written “0wned”] Your condition when your machine has been cracked by a root exploit, and the attacker can do anything with it. This sense is occasionally used by hackers.

2. [gamers, IRC, crackers] To be dominated, controlled, mastered. For example, if you make a statement completely and utterly false, and someone else corrects it in a way that humiliates or removes you, you are said to “have been owned” by that person. When referring to games, “I own0r UT GOTYE” means that one has mastered Unreal Tournament, Game of the Year Edition to such a level that even the hardest AI characters are mere lunchmeat, and that no ordinary mortal player would even receive a point in competition. There are several spelling variants: 0wned, 0wn0r3d, even pwn0r3d. Hackers do not use this sense.

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:14:12 PM EDT

[#7]

Here is a graphic that speaks for itself

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:14:32 PM EDT

[#8]

It means having a patch of hair randomly cut from your head.

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:14:47 PM EDT

[#9]

Actually, it's spelled 0wned (with a zero). Came out of the days of Quake 1, when one player would totally dominate the others. He would "own" the other players. Started off as "I/he/she owned you!", but got shortened to "owned", and then "0wned" when "leet speak" made it's way into online gaming.

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:15:16 PM EDT

[#10]

It means you're someone's BI*CH.

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:17:35 PM EDT

[#11]

Ok I see now.

I thought we were supposed to say "you got served" in those situations.

I can't keep all this jive talkin straight.

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:21:00 PM EDT

[#12]

Woot. That just about sums it up

- BUCC_Guy

EDIT: Shout out to PETA! Where you at?

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:23:57 PM EDT

[#13]

When a rag comes out from behind a bldg ready to launch an RPG at US forces and gets cut down in a hail of machinegun fire, he is OWNED!

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:31:08 PM EDT

[#14]

So the word "0wned" makes more sense than "gotcha!" or something like that? I mean "0wned" implies the exchange of currency. Like "I own your ass because I bought your soul" or something.

Is it that 0wned is just a random word that some 'puter geeks decided would mean something cool, but in fact makes people look rediculous when they say it?

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:39:31 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Ok I see now.

I thought we were supposed to say "you got served" in those situations.

I can't keep all this jive talkin straight.

Oh brother... White Man Alert on Aisle 5!

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:43:08 PM EDT

[#16]

Or the slight variation

pwned or pwn3d

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:44:31 PM EDT

[#17]

It means,

SLAP UP SIDE THE HEAD Now go fix me a SAMMICH.....

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:45:23 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Ok I see now.

I thought we were supposed to say "you got served" in those situations.

I can't keep all this jive talkin straight.

dragunov
Its not "jive" talking..
Its slang used in the online gaming comunity such as Quake, CounterStrike, etc,
that has spread out to the web forums/bbs communities.
Very modern day slang.
ETA
It has spread out to conversational English as well but not to the extant of "jive"

"Oh stewardess, I speak jive."

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:46:33 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Or the slight variation

pwned or pwn3d

Why the variations?

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:49:41 PM EDT

[#20]

pwned comes from somebody making a typo because the P key is next to the O key.
The pwn3d is a derivative from the haxx0rz community.
Mostly 14 year old geeks.

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:50:35 PM EDT

[#21]

beacause the o and the p are close together.

and you are drunk and hit pwn instead

Its not that new of a phrase... my dad says it and Im sure he aint been playing Counter Strike late at night

I've always took it as "He totally schooled/dominated you" and thusly, owned you.

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:53:16 PM EDT

[#22]

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:53:53 PM EDT

[#23]

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:55:45 PM EDT

[#24]

OWNED

Posted: 8/24/2004 12:57:55 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Ok I see now.

I thought we were supposed to say "you got served" in those situations.

I can't keep all this jive talkin straight.

Posted: 8/24/2004 1:03:09 PM EDT

[#26]

Here is an example of what it means to be OWNED

Posted: 8/24/2004 1:08:44 PM EDT

[#27]

Or, for a more contemporaneous example you can look up cyanide's threads on "Nancy Reagan hates GWB".

Posted: 8/24/2004 1:21:13 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
www.students.bucknell.edu/clanger/%5Carfcom%5Cowned36.jpg

Woot. That just about sums it up

- BUCC_Guy

EDIT: Shout out to PETA! Where you at?

Brings a tear to my eye, that does.

Reminds me of home.

Posted: 8/24/2004 1:31:46 PM EDT

[#29]

Posted: 8/24/2004 5:48:59 PM EDT

[#30]

So basically the term came from these kids who play computer games all the time?

I still don't understand the poor spelling. Is that because it's mostly academically inferior children who play these computer games, and they simply cannot spell correctly?

That still would not explain the 3 substituted for e...

Explanation anyone?

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:04:43 PM EDT

[#31]

BigDozer66

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:05:52 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
So basically the term came from these kids who play computer games all the time?

I still don't understand the poor spelling. Is that because it's mostly academically inferior children who play these computer games, and they simply cannot spell correctly?

That still would not explain the 3 substituted for e...

Explanation anyone?

www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A787917

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:08:07 PM EDT

[#33]

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:08:39 PM EDT

[#34]

I still think it's a stupid term but I'm a old fart at heart anyway

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:11:55 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
<SNIP>

That pretty much closes this thread! Well done!

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:14:12 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Quoted:
So basically the term came from these kids who play computer games all the time?

I still don't understand the poor spelling. Is that because it's mostly academically inferior children who play these computer games, and they simply cannot spell correctly?

That still would not explain the 3 substituted for e...

Explanation anyone?

www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A787917

Thanks.

Kids...

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:16:59 PM EDT

[#37]

Nope, got one of my favs to add:

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:20:11 PM EDT

[#38]

That's the best laugh I've had all day

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:22:37 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Nope, got one of my favs to add:

membres.lycos.fr/forumswg/owned28.gif

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:34:50 PM EDT

[#40]

Posted: 8/24/2004 6:35:22 PM EDT

[#41]

Posted: 8/24/2004 7:30:01 PM EDT

[#42]

Posted: 8/24/2004 7:36:52 PM EDT

[#43]

LOL

Posted: 8/24/2004 7:37:52 PM EDT

[#44]

I am the secretary of the US Department of Ownage, Pwnage, and Hitting People on the Head With Hats*

*USDOOPAHPOTHWH not associated with any government in the universe, current, future, or past.