Pwned

Unlike the other people who have posted definitions that are ridiculous, do not have substantial backing, or are simply mis-informed, I will give the complete definition of what 'pwned' means. The origins of 'pwned' are debated but there are two possible sources: a. A prominent player spelled 'owned' and the new word 'pwned' was adopted by people who thought it was '1337'. A map designer misspelled 'owned' and thus people started using 'pwned' instead.

Instead, it said, so-and-so 'has been pwned.' It basically means 'to own' or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force. Pwned definition, to totally defeat or dominate, especially in a video or computer game: You just got pwned! I pwned those guys in the end.

The definitions are as follows: In video games: 1. Completely or dominated. Perfectly owned, meaning the other player did not damage. This term actually comes from a game created hundreds of years ago, even before computers were invented. This game was called, 'chess'. The object of the game was to put the other player in, meaning, he was unable to move his king anywhere that he would not be threatened by another piece. Also in this game, you have 8 pieces at the front of your army called 'pawns', these were the least useful of all pieces, but that is not to mean they were worthless.

If you could defeat the other player by using your to apply check, that was called, and is still called. Gotham city impostors xbox one. Now, back in the early 80's, before, or even the INTERNET, there were ways you could contact other by using a. These were called and allowed you to connect to individual computers acting as severs where games would be so that people could play other people they did not know. Now, when I used to play these games as well as many other people 22+, they used to use and coined the phrase, 'pwned'.

Which was slang for pawned. It eventually was taken from just and used in other text based games to the loser of a match. It is now commonly wide spread across the world, although the children do not understand its true meaning. Saying it came from anywhere else is stating you're a poser for the fact you have no knowledge of gaming history and like to think you you make things up.