Origin of 'pwned' and '12345679' and 'two drops'

[RootSkier]

JONGness is so relative.

How did 'owned' end up 'pwned'?

What is the origin of 123456789?

And can anyone reference the thread where 'two drops' originated...or is this some pop culture reference that never made it to backwoods Montucky?

[mntlion]

123... is due to you have to post with a min of 8 letters, so Doh. will not work, but Doh 9876 will

[pechelman]

www.wikipedia.org
regarding pwned, Im pretty sure it was started in the online multiplayer quake mod of Team Fortress, which they dont mention I think.

[skiing-in-jackson]

pwn3d at urbandictionary.com:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwn3d

[L7]

2 drops, as in that made me laugh so hard I squeezed out to drops of pee. I think it's more popular with the maggettes. (the act if not the saying).

[Blurred]

pwned-came from the online game counter-strike. It's called leet or L337. IpWnJ00n00bs!

[edg]

1337 was on IRC before half life was made...

edg

[dbp]

from the wikipedia entry...

The word pwn is an Internet variation on the word own. There are several possible origins for the word, all of which rely on a pre-existing emphasis by computer users of pwn. Originating on the computer scene, it is most often seen in online gaming sessions today.

The likely beginning of the meme is from the hacker scene on EFNet IRC circa 1994. Owned or Own3d referred to getting administrative privileges on someone's computer by exploiting a security vulnerability. [citation needed] The use of the word own in terms of victory over another predates its use in the gaming subculture. This accounts for the pre-existing proliferation of the word, which may then have been morphed into pwn through any of the following possible means.

* The term could have simply been derived from a common misspelling, with no significant event proliferating its use [1][2]. Instead, it is assumed that it simply began to spread as a result of fast typing, due to the proximity of the P and O keys on most modern keyboard layouts, and the tendency of gamers and net users to create and expand internet memes.

* Another way of deriving pwn from own is by jokingly stating that P is the next letter after O, alphabetically, and in that way poses as some sort of higher level — so pwn is a kind of superlative own. This is the origin of other web slang expressions, such as "raising" the slang spelling gr8 (for great) to gr9, because 9 is the next step up from 8. Compare this with Victor Borge's inflationary language.

* Another possibility is that pwn is derived from pawn. Some first person shooter games had the phrase "Gamer1 pawned Gamer2's head" whenever Gamer 1 defeated Gamer2. Therefore it is possible that pawn was shortened to pwn by the players, and seeing the similarities to own, it stuck.

* Yet another possible explanation for the proliferation and common use of pwn; is the circumvention of language filters. Some game and chat servers began to ban the word own and its variants, as it was frequently being used in a verbally abusive manner when players achieved victory. Sometimes the message would be blocked; other times the user would simply be banned from the server. Some of these players have used pwn as a substitute word in order to bypass the filters.

[tex1230]

while we're at it, (Yes major JONG question)...anyone want to tell the origin of the whole "switch into the road" thing?

[Blurred]

1337 was on IRC before half life was made...

edg

i only said pwned came from cs. yes, leet has been around forever.

[edg]

i only said pwned came from cs. yes, leet has been around forever.

Fair enough, read it as if you were linking the two

edg

[Lone Star]

while we're at it, (Yes major JONG question)...anyone want to tell the origin of the whole "switch into the road" thing?

when it comes to stepping up and doing it, all it takes is sacking up and you can do it, too. all you have to do is try.

[pechelman]

i only said pwned came from cs. yes, leet has been around forever.

I can definitely say without a doubt 100% that pwned did NOT originate in CS.
TeamFortress started in 1996 and I started to play it well before Half-Life was even released. I started to see "pwned" back before I got into high school, so the summer of '96. The Efnet origins claimed by wikipedia could be accurate, but I never idled in any of those chatroom really, so I have no idea.

-yes in my previous life I was an internet dork, perhaps I still am to some extent

edit: oh an the origin is pretty obviously the "o" and "p" beign right next to each other. Infact I think it was started by some retard in a gay clan like DJEDI typing "pwned" in his console and without realising it hitting the up arrow and enter repeatedly to hammer it in.

[Beaver]

Wow, you guys are all just hip cats.

[Arno]

while we're at it, (Yes major JONG question)...anyone want to tell the origin of the whole "switch into the road" thing?

find yourself a copy of Highlife and watch the Jamie Pierre segment

[tex1230]

I knew it was him...just didn't know the context...thanks

[phUnk]

I brought "two drops" to TGR.

I stole it from Eddie Murphy.