Is “no cap” next? I’m like way old.
Pwn should be a few steps back
Pwn, pwned was so specific to gaming it shouldn’t even be on the list.
And pog is specific to twitch in the gaming sphere, so the same logic would apply.
Not to be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, but gnarly was at least a decade before rad. Also, epic is nearly 2 decades later.
Cool.
Glad I’m not the only one… The hell is it doing after epic?
Should be “let’s go” then “no cap”
Epic for the win
bussin
slay
I’m old enough to experience slang which isn’t native to my generation. But let me just say, this current generations slang is the shittest in a long time.
Previous gen slang (fam, lit, yeet) was a 6/10
Current gen slang (frfr, no cap, rizz) is 2/10
Next gen has such a low bar to beat, it’ll be hard for them to fuck this up.
Hemlo, inventor of PWN here.
It was a misspelling of “Owned” in a Warcraft 2 map that I made. People thought it was funny that it upset me when I noticed the typo and perpetuated the map version with the misspelling.
“Player 1 was pwned.”
For more Internet history facts, stay tuned.
Sounds like you got pwned, noob.
I fucking did. The Internet will never let me live it down.
However, it belongs to you all now!
Be free
And get rekt :p
Thank you for this incredibly interesting yet highly unexpected history lesson. I really enjoy knowing this now.
… I can’t tell if you’re serious or joking but since it’s Lemmy I want to think you’re serious and that’s pretty fucking cool if it is, bud
Hello fellow pog, it is me, your ancestor :>
I mean I am like 37 so you’re probably more like my brother haha
ITS HIM! GET HIM!!!
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Did Pure Pwnage ever pay you rolalties?
Are you kidding me? No way. You can’t trademark a word or a typo. That’s dumb.
Jeremy deserves every ounce of his fame from Pure Pwnage
Yeah,
pwn
was way beforeepic
Flameo
My hotman
pog was also popular in the 90s tho
Remember pog? It’s back!
In POG form!
but now it’s Alf, remember Alf?
I’m actually glad that the zeitgest doesn’t really remember Alf.
You knew things had gotten serious when the metal slammers came into play.
I’m a little sad I had to scroll so long to even find a reference to the old “pogs”. Damn what a weird fad.
Oh I still have POGs around somewhere. Middle aged Americans can kill this quickly…
Alf Pogs?
Still use gnarly. Get fucked, I’m never giving it up. Over my dead body
Sick, dude.
Totally righteous 🤙
Keep slayin.
I sometimes use the weird words 90s kids used here in Germany. My favorites are definitely lazer and Porno. Porno literally meaning porn.
Find isch auch porno
Rad
I still use that, and I’m trying to bring def back but I got none of the rizz to do it
Pog is like 3 years outa date we chillin with skibidi rizz rn
I like your funny words, magic man
Right now, “huge” is popping up a lot.
Big if true
One way in the back should say “bees knees”.
And somewhere between it and “rad,” “swell” and “far out.”
“sweet” should be on there somewhere after the 80s slang.
Next to “bee’s bollocks”
… and dog’s bollocks.
Bully!
Capital, old chap
Simply smashing, what?
Whats the timeline on these? I feel like pwn win and epic all happened at the same time. Also i dont see leet or '1337"
“Rad” and “gnarly,” too.
I mean people didn’t entirely stop using them but those seem like 90’s terms to me.
They are, 80s and 90s. I mean that they happened around the same time.
Dinkin flicka is not on this list and it makes me sad.
wicked