2008-09-03, 11:42 PM
Blankout Wrote:I think it came from the time a GM from World of Warcraft mistyped "own" as "pwn". Not sure. Maybe Wikipedia has answers?
As far as I know, this is the most accurate story to what I had heard. So yeah, I'm seconding this and if you want, you can always check Urban Dictionary, they usually do have accurate origins of words along with the commentary people try to pass off as descriptions.

