lets talk about pwning for a minute

We all have been talking about how we need the neto signal for ultimate pwnage. But what does "pwning" actually mean?

Well, wikipedia, defines pwning as "used by the Internet gaming subculture, means to beat or dominate an opponent (pwned can mean "to be made a fool of")."

This is generally can be applied to neto since he has made us all look like fools. E.g.,

"Rennie: I hate superman, because all he has is superpowers
Neto: Rennie that's the stupidest argument you've ever said"

....Pwnt.

Past tenses of pwn are pwned, pwnd, pwn'd, pwnt.

The origins of the word trace back to online gaming, some say it begins even at Quake, where a highly skilled player would misspell "owned" with "pwned" and less skilled players started adopting it as well.

another origin could be in a real time strategy game where(either Warcraft II or StarCraft) where someone would make a custom map, where losing players would see a special message, however, instead of players seeing "YOU WERE OWNED", the typo resulted in "YOU WERE PWNED", it is said that the word originated from this one hapless misspelling.

another theory states that it began from the origins of C++ programing language. The 'C Programming Language' was given its name as the next letter after an even earlier 'B'. 'C++' was the name given to the next iterative revision of C, an inside programming joke whereby '++' increases the referent (in this case C) by a value of 1. By the same logic [with the letter 'p' acting as a '++'], the word pwn represents own incremented by a value of 1.

tune in next week when I discuss WTF OMFG and its new derivative...OMFA.