KnowYourMeme [1] is surpisingly high quality and informative sometimes. "pwn" apparently has origins going as far back as the 60s, but I had to guess it's mostl

KnowYourMeme [1] is surpisingly high quality and informative sometimes. "pwn" apparently has origins going as far back as the 60s, but I had to guess it's mostly popular these days due to the brief leetspeak phase of the early 90s, where it was a more pointed, edgier way to write "owned". [1] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/owned-pwned http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/owned-pwned