A fork of Rural Dictionary
The word pwning came about when extreme gamers, who were in the heat of extreme gaming, typed "you got owned". of course, misspelling it because a pro gamer has no time to worry about silly things like correct spelling when they are killing noobs left and right.
*awsome gamer just single-handedly killed the entire other team*
Gamer: "you just got pwned"
*gamer keeps killing*
The total ownage and/or complete shutdown of a person, place, or thing.
Derived from the word "owned" but is much cooler and more widely used.
It was created because of an idiot who can't spell "owned" (and so therefore he was pwned)
Speaker one: We totally kicked @$$ in the game last night!
Speaker two: Yeah, that team got PWNED!!
An intentional mispelling of 0wned, so as to cause even more humiliation to the person who has been "0wned."
"Dude I PWNED your ass."
"Oh, My bad, I meant i OWNED you!"
Such as the saracasm tag (</sarcasm>), the </pwned> tag represents, that some one has been pwned in a live chat or internet forums. The "</" and ">" come from html talk used on .html, pages for internet websites.
"Haphazardly: Hey man you suck! And your girlfriend was a ho!, </pwned>"
"Nitrous69: I wish I was cool as Haphazardly!"