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The correct spelling in that case is pwned isn’t it? I got it from context, but those always felt like subtly different words to me.
by Swizec 3y ago
The correct spelling in that case is pwned isn’t it? I got it from context, but those always felt like subtly different words to me.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoI've seen owned plenty of times. "Owned a box" like that
- amatecha 3y agoyeah, "owned" came far before "pwned". Wiktionary cites this usenet post from 1996 https://groups.google.com/g/alt.sysadmin.recovery/c/IsdIZqfW_sM/m/9UTRiIoSy74J https://groups.google.com/g/alt.sysadmin.recovery/c/IsdIZqfW... .. can't find an "earliest source" for "pwned" tho
- Izkata 3y ago"pwned" is from a late-90s StarCraft custom map where the map creator typo'd "owned" as "pwned" in a message that popped up when one player beat another.
- bombcar 3y agopwn is a typo'd version of own, but since it's unambiguous it would have been better here
- sobkas 3y ago> The correct spelling in that case is pwned isn’t it? I got it from context, but those always felt like subtly different words to me. For me owned was as in "CIA owned Crypto AG" not "netrunner owned the Chrome" not that Chrome