Pwned
I just watched the classic episode of South Park entitled, “Make Love, Not Warcraft” (via iTunes) and I laughed at the term I’ve heard in a few places, pwned (man, that’s hard to type).The whole episode was classic, I was bursting at the scenes for the entire trip.
Anyway, the word ‘pwned’ (likely pronouced “poned” but there is some debate) was likely first used via a spelling mistake by a programmer for Warcraft II Tides of Darkness and it’s use just grew from there.
The Wikipedia entry on Pwn is pretty fascinating.
