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Joe Clark says:

May 31, 2009 at 8:55 pm

I think the accepted acronym is MMORPGs (“morepegs”), IIRC.
Jonathan says:

June 1, 2009 at 8:21 am

Thanks for the correction Joe.
John says:

August 20, 2009 at 2:41 pm

So that is the beginning of PWN
Kate says:

August 21, 2009 at 9:04 am

what’s PWN ?
Simon says:

November 9, 2009 at 9:03 pm

The term or phrase “pwn” has been inexistence on the internet long before WoW came into existence. I can recall instances of it being used in games and on irc back in 2000 if not before.

I think it would be nearly impossible to define where it originated from.
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May 12, 2010 at 5:00 am

[…] 12, 2010 Part two of the previously cited blog, “Pwn leet: a dynamic sublanguage and internet phenomenon” by Jonathan Cole, discusses where certain leet terms came from, specifically “pwn” and […]