I'd go with the all time great Canadian Gamer show: PurePwnage, from 2004, as the popularizer of the spoken term. Though it goes back to at least 1999 with the

I'd go with the all time great Canadian Gamer show: PurePwnage, from 2004, as the popularizer of the spoken term. Though it goes back to at least 1999 with the original CounterStrike and the term in text, then read aloud. I remember the shouts of 'pone' in the afterschool computer lounge from friends to at least 1999, if not earlier. http://www.purepwnage.com/ http://www.purepwnage.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Pwnage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Pwnage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn