Re: "Owned"

[Michael DeBusk <chinos6398@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30 Dec 2006 21:15:45 -0800, Richard Fangnail
<richardfangnail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

>  "owned" seems to be very recent slang for "was defeated by."  Like,
>  "the nazis got owned by the Russians."  Where did this idiom come
>  from? 

Allegedly from losers who amuse themselves by hacking into other
people's computers on a network. Once you gain control of their
computer, you can use it as if you own it.

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

To be "pwnd" is worse than to be "owned".
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwnd