fkn0wned archive

PPL Keep Getting Banned

A freshly banned member torches the site on his way out, threatening to hire a hacker and predicting fkn0wned's death.

A brand-new user, SaltyNuts, posted a rage-quit rant after apparently getting banned, cursing out the admins, claiming the site would 'die' and rival community 'The Core' would rise, and threatening to hire a hacker for revenge. The thread reads as a classic forum meltdown/troll post rather than a real security incident. Regular members RecoileZ and veteran uploader KZA responded, with RecoileZ mocking the OP outright.

Will hire the best hacker to hack your fkn site for sure you wont enjoy it— SaltyNuts

The Core Forever bitches and the staff are lil kids with no life— SaltyNuts

i loled u nigger— RecoileZ

Does Your ISP Offer Sex (Comcast Speed Boost Hype Thread)

Comcast did some upgrades and one staffer basically proposed marriage to his new download speeds.

A quick, goofy November 2007 thread in General Discussion where staff member hunterbrute224 excitedly posted a string of speedtest.net screenshots after Comcast upgraded infrastructure in his area, declaring the results 'insanely epic' before signing off for a week-long vacation. A handful of regulars piled on with jokes about stealing his bandwidth and jealousy over their own slower connections. Nothing deep here — just a snapshot of everyday forum banter and the era's obsession with speedtest bragging rights.

So comcast did some work in my area, OMFG this is insanely epic, anyone with comcast run your speed test you will want to sex yourself.— hunterbrute224

imma steal ur internehtz tonight. you betta watch out.— bobbafett07

Sucks. And why is this happening? =\— The Moose

For industry!

A guy named Industry demanded an absurd photoshop, and Seaking actually delivered it.

A short-lived Off-Topic gag thread where user Seaking answers a bizarre photoshop request from a member named Industry (something involving Seaking, a three-legged unicorn, a marching band snare, and heavy metal bands with lights). The result gets a few laughs and 'nice photoshopping' comments before the thread was closed by moderator PaRaNoID for flaming. A classic quick-hit joke thread typical of the forum's Off-Topic section.

a good seaking photshop would be like seaking riding a 3 legged unicorn playing the marching band snare with a bunch of heavy metal bands playing in the background, plus a bnuch of lights and stuff!!!— Industry

this is pure hot steamy sexual pleasure.... goodjob seaking lol— Industry

wrong section haha.— jcomp6

Lets see how high we can count :D

A guy tried to restart the classic counting thread — it lasted four posts before staff shut it down as a repost.

A member named RNK kicked off yet another 'let's count' filler thread in General Discussion, only to be immediately called out by regulars for duplicating an existing topic. A link to the original counting thread was dropped, Fopje asked people to just report it, and moderator NIX closed it minutes later with a boilerplate 'closed' notice. A tiny, mundane slice of forum life — low effort thread, fast community self-policing, quick mod hammer.

we already have a topic like this :)— [1K] Justin Bieber

so lets do it again niggah— RNK

guys, please just report the thread so it gets closed :)— [FkN] Fopje

The Last Post Wins! (2)

A classic 'last post wins' meme thread that got smacked shut by staff in under 90 minutes flat.

A lighthearted spam-bait thread in General Discussion where members raced to claim the final post with 'winning' memes (Charlie Sheen references included). It lasted barely half a dozen replies before a moderator locked it with a snarky 'WINRAR' closure notice. A VIP and a 1K Club member both chimed in before the hammer dropped, capturing the low-stakes, jokey energy of GD at the time.

The last person to post in this thread wins!— Grim

I WIN!— ojj321

WINRAR, do no make another!— [FkN] Nick

The "Official" Story of Spam

The mock-epic origin myth of Fkn0wned.com — TuxifieD, the Great Spammer Wars, and the legendary U.S.P.S.

A staff member named Industry posted a tongue-in-cheek mythologized history of the site, framing founder TuxifieD and moderator Shifty as heroes battling a fictional spammer faction dubbed 'U.S.P.S' (United Spammers Posting Shit). The tale humorously covers the founding of the Super Moderator and Admin ranks as defenses against spam floods, name-dropping Malware as a respected former Smod/Admin. The post ends with a practical checklist of questions members should ask themselves before starting a new thread, aimed at curbing low-effort posting. It's part joke, part community lore, part rules reminder — clearly intended as a sticky.

He felt like Hercules fighting the hydra!— Industry

United Spammers Posting Shit— Industry

if you stop typing and turn your speakers up very loud you can hear the distant screams of rage and clicking of the "post thread" button in the wind— Industry

Breaking a Nokia N73

A dead phone, a dog, and a forum's collective bad ideas for destroying it

Member Goodger posted about deliberately destroying a (battery-less) Nokia N73 with mates for fun, promising more phone-smashing videos to come. The thread quickly turned into a lighthearted brainstorm of increasingly absurd destruction methods — blenders, ovens, hammers, even feeding it to a dog — with Goodger confirming he'd already tried the dog method and floating a 'sparkler bomb' idea next. A small, silly, very General Discussion moment of early-2010s forum goofing around.

Yes this is a real phone rofl, not a fake one, watch us mess it up xD— Goodger

did u actually ask ur dog to eat it -.-— SnEaKyJoKER

Sounds like good plans from you people, i think i might make a sparkler bomb out of one lol— Goodger

The 'Now Playing' Thread

Seven pages of 2007 forum kids sharing whatever was stuck in their headphones — from Thrice to Lupe Fiasco to Wu-Tang.

A long-running Off-Topic staple where members just posted whatever song they were listening to at the moment, no real debate or drama, just a casual running log of mid/late-2000s music taste. Genres bounce all over the place — screamo/post-hardcore (Thrice), gangsta rap (Dr. Dre, Bone Thugs), pop-punk (Paramore), and fresh releases like Lupe Fiasco's 'The Cool' getting hyped the day it dropped. It's a low-stakes, feel-good community thread that mostly shows off the personalities and profile flair (custom titles, group ranks) of regular posters.

Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (came out today its fucking awesome) i love Superstar— dainbramaged

Paramore - Misery Business <33— Exodus

wu tang clan - rushing elephants— LoRd Ragealot

Graphics Crew: Pink or Red?

The great color debate that decided the GFX Basement's identity — pink won in a landslide.

A lighthearted General Discussion poll asking whether the site's Graphics Crew (GFX Basement) team color should be pink or red. Pink dominated both recorded vote tallies by a wide margin, with members chiming in with jokes and one-liners rather than serious design arguments. A tangential joke thread about the '1K Club' rank (comparing members to Liberace) spilled into the conversation, giving it that classic off-topic, low-stakes forum banter feel.

Yea Purple is so much better, now I just need a updated avater.— DJSketch

For GFX crew I say pink— Futerix

WHENEVER I SEE 1K CLUB NOW I THINK OF LIBERACE, DISCUSS.— mr.N0Nam3

Phish Community Method Not Working

A member's Steam group-joining 'phishing' trick suddenly stops working — cue troubleshooting and a guide-writer's wounded pride.

A user reports that a community/group-joining technique he'd been using (linked to another thread's 'method') stopped functioning correctly after repeated use, with joined groups failing to appear on his friends list. Other members chime in with troubleshooting suggestions like restarting Steam or adding a friend first, while the original guide's author shows up a bit defensive that someone was using his method before crediting him. It's a low-stakes, everyday technical-support thread typical of the site's Off-Topic/General Discussion board, showing the casual cheat-adjacent tinkering culture of the forum.

Awww someone likes my guide <3. There's no limit on how many groups you can join or leave. Least not for me.— bobbafett07

Lolz, twas using it before u posted my friend. Its an awsome method though.— blacknight00

try adding someone before you join a group 8)— thesource

Best MW2 Knife Throw Ever!

A single lucky MW2 knife toss had the whole forum yelling "BULLSHIT" in unison.

A short, low-stakes hype thread from November 2009 where ap3x shared a clip of an unlikely Modern Warfare 2 knife-throw kill, prompting a cascade of disbelieving reactions from regulars. The replies are pure early-MW2-era forum banter — mock outrage, jokes about the victim's reaction, and a few members recalling similar flukes of their own. Nothing controversial, just a quick burst of communal 'no way' energy typical of the General Discussion section back then.

THAT'S BULLSHIT!— ap3x

Pussy. I can throw 600 miles and hit someone.— vermiLLion

all you can hear is 13 year olds voices— Niceboy233

Anti-Thanks Mod Exploit Callout

A noob tried to publicly expose a hide-content bug to an admin — and got clowned by the guy whose profile he called out

A brand-new member (m4ster, only 6 posts) posted a thread trying to point out a supposed exploit that let users view hidden 'thanks-locked' links without actually thanking the poster, name-dropping a specific member's profile as the example. That member turned out to be PaRaNoID himself, a veteran 1000-club poster, who along with staff regular hunterbrute224 and fellow veteran Paws brushed it off as a long-known, harmless quirk rather than a real bug. The thread was quickly marked closed and answered by PaRaNoID, ending in mild mockery of the OP for making a fuss over nothing.

erm its a known bug.. not really a bug tho— Paws

what a pointless thread seriously this is well known.....— hunterbrute224

its just a bug the admins will fix it— PaRaNoID

Alternative Ways to Get High

A brand-new member's terrible idea for a thread somehow got staff replies too.

A newly registered member, fresh off getting caught trying an infamous marijuana-growing thread, proposed a thread crowdsourcing legal or household ways to get high. Staff and older members chimed in half-jokingly, tossing out household-item suggestions and dismissing them as impractical, with someone else derailing into nutmeg. It's a classic mid-2000s off-topic forum thread: a bad idea proposed earnestly by a noob, met with dry sarcasm from regulars and staff rather than any real guidance.

I was thinking that it would be a cool /good idea to maybe start a thread listing alternative ways to get high.— ROY4LTYx

Spray paint is too expensive. Might as well buy weed.— ROY4LTYx

nutmeg!— ballistic

Guy's Desktop Files Vanish After Reboot

One reboot, one Windows update, and asshoel50's whole desktop just... gone.

A member named asshoel50 posts in a panic after rebooting his PC and finding every file on his desktop missing, asking if there's any way to recover them. Fellow members chime in with suggestions ranging from System Restore to checking desktop display settings, but a couple of posters speculate he'd been hit by a trojan and warn the files might be unrecoverable. A small, mundane tech-support thread typical of the forum's Off-Topic/General Discussion section, showing the community's casual back-and-forth troubleshooting style.

all files on my desktop were gone. is there a way to restore this cause i had some importan files on it :/— asshoel50

your trojanned, resotore with windows disk— ballistic

id say trojaned and your not going to get your important files back if you were. Sry Bud.. Better Luck next time...— darkfin2323

Awesome or What? (the TF2-showed-up-on-every-account mystery)

Everyone's Steam account mysteriously had TF2 — turns out it was just a free week, mods closed it in minutes.

A member named gunhater noticed Team Fortress 2 appearing on freshly made Steam accounts and asked the forum if it was a glitch. A few regulars chimed in with half-serious theories (preload, a Half-Life-style unlock quirk) before staff member hoOkz pointed out it was simply a free promotional week for TF2 and locked the thread as solved. Pure small-talk filler thread, notable mostly for the quick, low-drama mod close and the casual back-and-forth typical of the General Discussion board.

actually, i think its like half life, once you install it, it comes on all your accounts. but you cant play it unless u have it on that account. AMIRITE?— [VIP] ojj321

TF2 is a free week so all steams will have it— [FkN] hoOkz

Team Fortress 2 is free for this week /solved— [FkN] hoOkz

iPod Games - Fkn0wned.Com

A guy with a fancy new iPod Nano just wanted free Snake, and the thread that followed is pure 2007 internet time-capsule energy.

A member who'd just bought a 3rd-gen iPod Nano asked whether iTunes games could be pirated or otherwise bypassed instead of paying $5 a pop, grumbling about Apple pricing. Replies were short and casual — one classic sarcastic 'google it' response, one guy plugging Rockbox as a way to play games like Snake and Doom on his iPod, and another vaguely pointing toward 'patching' the device. Low-effort, low-drama, everyday General Discussion filler typical of the era's off-topic banter.

does anyone know if its possible to download the games on bittorrent or something and make them work with itunes?— dainbramaged

www.google.com =]— jcomp6

i use rockbox on my ipod i can play snake, doom, copter game .....— bragamuffin

The 'Leaked JWoww Nudes' Reply-to-Unhide Thread

21 pages of guys typing 'unhide' for a Jersey Shore pic that was never actually there to see.

A classic forum bait thread from January 2011: [RnR] TuxifieD posted a supposed leaked nude of Jersey Shore's Jenni 'JWoww' Farley behind a reply-gated 'Hidden Content' spoiler, a well-worn trick to farm registrations and post counts. Dozens of brand-new accounts (many one-post wonders who signed up that same day) piled in with one-word replies like 'unhide' and 'lemme see it,' while a few regulars stopped by for the joke. It ran to 21 pages, making it one of the forum's classic engagement-bait threads rather than an actual nude leak.

WHERE THE FUCK IS MY VIP.— [VIP] raw

I call bullshit— DickFor

I would like to see. bet its not her.— [email protected]

Help Get Fkn0wned Back on Top! (Voting Drive Thread)

The one where staff begged members to proxy-vote the site back up the rankings

A long-running (8-page) General Discussion thread where Fkn0wned members and staff rallied the community to vote for the site, apparently in some kind of top-sites/gaming portal ranking contest, trying to reclaim lost ground after falling behind competitors. Co-Manager Shifty and other veterans repeatedly bumped the thread urging everyone to vote, with talk of using proxies to get around vote limits. It's a snapshot of forum community-building culture circa 2007-2008, complete with casual crude banter and a random tangent about a mysterious 'Gold Member' banner.

we are down by 3 haha.— blacknight00

bump vote everyone.— Shifty

EVERYONE VOTE! USE PROXYS DO WHAT IT TAKES— Shifty

Bitgamer Invites!

One member's got 8 golden Bitgamer invites to give away — first come, first served, and they vanish in minutes

A quick, friendly giveaway thread from April 2009 where member Cortez7 offers a handful of invite codes to the private tracker Bitgamer, asking interested members to PM their email. The invites go fast, with Cortez7 updating the thread as they run out, and a few regulars drop by to say thanks. It's a small, wholesome slice of the old private-tracker invite culture that was common on forums like this one, capped off with a locked thread once supplies ran dry.

I only have 8 so hurry! :D— Cortez7

They're going like warm pie.. Because everyone likes Warm Pie, don't we guys?— Cortez7

Golden Torrents don't count towards your Download!— Cortez7

"For Those Who Don't Know" — Staff Rank Explainer

A supervisor breaks down fkn0wned's staff hierarchy, and immediately gets called out over a bogus warn.

A supervisor (posting as mr.N0Nam3 / later NoNamE!) lays out the site's staff ranking system for confused members, from CEO/Root Admin down to the '1K' 1000-post club, nicknamed 'our cheerleaders.' It reads as a recurring FAQ-style post explaining forum hierarchy. The thread quickly turns mildly petty when member sammo replies mostly to gripe about a warning he received for posting in the rants section, and another member (Industry) asks a genuine follow-up about the admin vs. super-moderator distinction. Small, everyday slice of forum bureaucracy and the minor status squabbles that came with it.

CEO - Root Admin Manager - Admin Co-Manager - Admin Supervisor - Super Moderator Staff - Moderator 1K - Our Cheerleaders.— mr.N0Nam3

Ok, I knew this but im replying cause you gave me a warn for 2 posts in the rants section, wtf?— sammo

whats the difference between admin and smod?— Industry

So I was just chilling at the mall, till some douche bag planted a bomb

A mall bomb scare breaks live in General Discussion while regulars ask for news that hasn't even been written yet.

A thread in General Discussion where a member recounts a bomb scare at a mall, sparking quick back-and-forth about whether it was a real attempt or a false alarm. Regulars like kudi and PopTart chime in asking for more details and news links, with PopTart (an admin) noting the event had just happened within the hour. Jeremy Lin adds an unrelated aside about America being 'fucked up.' It's a snapshot of the forum's casual, real-time chatter culture outside of its usual cheats-and-hacking focus.

More a failed attempt rather than a false alarm, or at least that's what it seems like— NigelStrawberry

It just happened within the hour, doubt there is any news stories yet.— PopTart

America is fucked up.— Jeremy Lin

All Time Greatest FkN Quotes

Members dug up the forum's funniest, dumbest, and most cringe-worthy one-liners for posterity

A nostalgia thread in Off-Topic/General Discussion where members collected and re-posted memorable quotes from the FkN0wned community — shoutbox one-liners, IM logs, and forum zingers. The tone is casual and joke-heavy, heavy on early-2010s internet forum humor including some crude and offensive jokes typical of the era. A few posts also touch on site drama, like someone calling out another site for stealing an FkN image.

You can't even type properly, if you ever make a hack the menu will say. "oleis hcak"— mr.N0Nam3

Rofl Subzero/imm0rtal is paying me $50/week to stay on his site— c0ke

New Rebecca Black song?

Zanderdanmark shares a new Rebecca Black song, gets instantly told it's already old news, self-locks the thread in under a minute

A quick, low-stakes General Discussion thread from July 2011 where member zanderdanmark posted a link to a new Rebecca Black song, only for two other members (OJJ and 'Justin Bieber') to reply almost instantly saying it had already been posted. Zanderdanmark then closed his own thread as a moderator seconds later. A tiny, mundane slice of forum life that captures the fast-paced, meme-heavy, nothing-serious vibe of the board's off-topic chatter.

Damn it sucks.— [FkN] zanderdanmark

Already posted— [VIP] OJJ

has been posted before :)— [1K] Justin Bieber

Game Conn - Fkn0wned.com

A rival site dangles a $500 giveaway to poach members — and gets roasted for it.

A member with a fresh, low post count drops in to advertise 'Gameconn.net,' a new community forum, hyping cash and gift card prizes to lure people to register and even take on moderator roles. The pitch reads like classic forum spam/cross-promotion of the era. A veteran uploader clowns the offer by 'offering' to moderate for $500 flat, and another member just asks what the site is even about, unconvinced. Thread fizzles out after three replies with no real traction.

Register for a chance to win $500 and 5X $50 giftcards for best buy!— swat0880

pay me $500 US i will moderate/manage your forum. day to day.— KZA

what is this site revolving? is it similar to this? is it a tut site?— irishash

Remote-upload Rapidshare Trouble

sammo can't get RapidShare remote-upload to work, and the thread mostly just roasts him for it

A member named sammo asks for help with RapidShare's remote-upload feature, which kept telling him the URL was invalid despite pasting working links from warez-bb. Fellow members poke fun at his troubleshooting attempts and question whose premium account he was even using, while staffer Don Ruski (Peski) gets called out by name and jokingly plays along. A pretty ordinary tech-support gripe thread that turns into some light ribbing, typical of the forum's off-topic banter.

rapidshare.com isn't a valid url. Anybody know what im doing.— sammo

also your RS premium is goneski's ??— jcomp6

You tried to say Peski?— Don Ruski

Suck My Dick 7/11

A thread about scamming free stuff from 7-Eleven turns into a coupon-logic debate

A General Discussion thread, crudely titled after 7-Eleven, centers on members discussing social engineering tactics and coupon exploits to get free items from the convenience store chain. Regular Puree and forum veteran Nick weigh in on whether such tricks count as social engineering or are 'completely legal,' with Nick shutting down a coupon reuse idea as dead on arrival. Typical low-stakes, mundane hustle talk that filled out the site's general boards between the bigger cheat/hacking discussions.

All SE'ing is the same. Call. Say XYZ doesn't work. Work around YXZ. Get free shit.— silentr0ck

No Se'ing at all. Completely legal.— Nick

Nope, once used the coupon is dead Forever— Nick

Any way to skip closed ports?

A guy tries to dodge his work firewall and the forum shrugs back at him

A member named Kane asks if there's a way to get around ports blocked by his workplace's network admins so he can run a program at work, and whether he'd get caught doing it. Supervisor Janza suggests just switching to a different port, and hunterbrute224 chimes in about using port forwarding for hosting stuff on his own router at home. Pretty mundane, low-stakes tech-help thread typical of the forum's General Discussion section.

Is there any way I can connect to ports even their closed? Any way around?— kanetheheatsink

Just a question, why can't you just use a different port?— Janza

I use port forwarding to host shit on my router— hunterbrute224

Music Torrents

Demonoid's dead — where do you get your tunes now?

A short, casual January 2008 thread in General Discussion where a member asks for good music torrent sites after Demonoid went down. Several regulars chime in with their go-to sites of the era (isoHunt, Mininova, The Pirate Bay, btjunkie, torrentz, and staff member Arcade dropping what.cd and waffles.fm), with some good-natured ribbing about torrent-hunting skills along the way. Nothing dramatic, just a snapshot of how people found music before streaming took over.

But I'm teh_uber_t0rrenthax0r so I add trackers manually sometimes, rifk.— The Moose

worlds best one, just be like Pussycat dolls "album name" Torrent— jcomp6

Staff Emails — The Official Verified Contact List

The stickied list every member checked before trusting a DM: 'if their email isn't here, block them.'

A locked, pinned reference thread from Fkn0wned's admin team listing verified staff contact emails, posted so members could confirm they were really talking to an admin, mod, or crew member and not an impersonator. Maintained by [FkN] PopTart with an ongoing changelog stretching from August 2010 into mid-2011, tracking staff additions, removals, and role changes over that year. The update log itself is a quiet timeline of the site's internal churn — mods coming and going, roles shuffled, a 'Founder' title handed out, and a 'massive update' by NIX in July 2011.</br>

Staff members will not ask for your passwords or account credentials. If someone messages your claiming to be a staff member and their email is not on this list, please block them.— [FkN] PopTart

Made my love Founder— [FkN] PopTart

9/10 Top Posters Are Banned...

A thread cataloguing the site's own purge turns into a full-blown tC vs Fkn0wned rivalry flare-up.

A general discussion thread pointing out that most of the forum's top posters had been banned spirals into a rehash of old beef between Fkn0wned and a rival community called thec0re (tC). A veteran uploader chimes in dismissively, while a low-post-count account claiming to represent tC leadership shows up to declare the 'war' long over and disavow any current tC members stirring drama on Fkn0wned. The tone is classic mid-2000s forum turf-war posturing, laced with insults and bravado.

All this 'war' between tC and Fkn finished ages ago, the only people causing more conflict are the noobs from my forum that still can't get enough of fkn.— thec0re

You may ban my account if it hurts your feelings.— thec0re

Okay. ill prove it. there nubs. there. gg.— KZA

"doing c0ke first time tonight =)" — the classic Off-Topic overshare thread

A member announces he's about to try cocaine and the forum reacts exactly how you'd expect.

A late-page continuation of an Off-Topic thread where a member shares (with a winking emoticon) that he's trying cocaine for the first time, prompting a mix of deadpan jokes, mild concern, and other members casually admitting their own drug use. Staff/mod Panda pops in with dry one-liners, and regular MeTaLn2 nonchalantly says he's already done it several times. Typical mid-2000s gaming-forum Off-Topic energy: shock-value confessional post, low-stakes ribbing, no real drama or intervention, just forum banter around a taboo topic.

Use a condom.— SeanKingston

Best advice I've heard all day.— Panda

i already did like 6 times lol. i gave my friend $20 to get me some more. but i certainly dont feel addictive i just dont like being sober ahaha— MeTaLn2

What's up with Niggorex?

A one-liner asking about a missing member turns into a two-post joke before a mod nukes the whole thread as 'spam fest.'

A member named Chazze posted a quick, curious question asking why a user called Niggorex seemed to be gone or erroring out on the site. Supervisor mr.N0Nam3 replied with a dismissive joke about the person's father, prompting a sarcastic 'that's really sad' response from Chazze. The thread never developed beyond that exchange before staff (Shifty.) closed it, logging the reason as 'spam fest' — a typical fate for short, low-content curiosity threads on this board.

DB Error, or what the phuck if someone knows?— Chazze

his daddy never loved him.— mr.N0Nam3

Oh really? That is really, really, really sad.... :<— Chazze

The Funny .gif Thread (56k Warning)

A decade-old dump of dead photobucket and tinypic links — the internet's original meme thread, in fossil form

A lighthearted General Discussion thread started by founder TuxifieD inviting members to post funny gifs to spice up forum replies, with a light rule against gore or low-effort posts. Regulars including Kimmi, f0wh, shwager, and a few newer members chimed in with batches of gifs and images (nearly all links now dead, hosted on old sites like Photobucket, TinyPic, and FunnyJunk). It's a classic slice of early-2010s forum culture — casual, meme-driven, and mildly flirty in the replies, with a small callback joke about Tux 'looking at Kathleen.'

Lets post some funny gifs that can spice up our replies in threads. Dont post shitty ones please.... make sure they are funny. No gore shit.— TuxifieD

lmao, its tux looking at Kathleen =O— shwager

Locked Out: The Great MSN Password Recovery Plea

One member locked himself out of MSN Messenger and begged the forum for a way back in — staff wasn't fully buying it.

A member named jacal posted in General Discussion asking for help recovering a forgotten MSN Messenger password after also losing the answer to his security question. He asked whether any tool existed to pull the password from local files or crack it if stored as MD5, explicitly disclaiming interest in 'bruteforce' programs. Staff member Scratch pushed back with a basic troubleshooting question about the 'Remember my password' setting, and the exchange continued with jacal insisting there must be some file-recovery tool. A fairly mundane tech-help thread typical of the era's MSN/account-recovery chatter on cheat-scene forums.

i know im dumb is there a program out there that can find it??— jacal

did you select "Remember my password" on msn messenger? Otherwise you can't recover it.— Scratch

but isn't there a program that goes back through the files or something that gets the password??— jacal

Bio-Hacks

A member noticed something weird on the site — and got quietly pointed somewhere else

A short, low-key thread in General Discussion where a member named 'x3.' asked what had happened to the site after seeing some kind of message pop up, framing it half-jokingly as a warning that an 'attack' would backfire on the staff. Forum regular Goodapollo, a well-known [1K] 1000 Club member, brushed it off and redirected the poster to another thread for the real explanation. The exchange wraps up quickly and cordially, with x3. thanking him for the pointer — a tiny, mundane slice of forum life rather than any real drama.

What have you guys done to the site, it came up with a message from you. Attack ftw, I have heard rumours this will very much bounce back on you as a friendly warning.— x3.

Look around a little more.— Goodapollo

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction downs.— x3.

Inspiring Piece

A Don Ruski copypasta manifesto about the 'underbelly of the internet' — years before Anonymous made it famous.

Don Ruski reposted a piece he'd dug up from an old closed FkN thread (originally from ShoutWire), a grandiose manifesto-style copypasta about internet outlaws, freedom, and a coming 'war fought online.' It reads today as an eerily early echo of the rhetoric that would later surround Anonymous and similar movements. Another member, jcomp6, immediately clocked it as a thread necro/repost with a joking 'nice grave digg.' Short thread, mostly just the one big post getting shared and acknowledged.

In case you missed the signposts, you have now entered the bad part of the internet.— Don Ruski

The next world war will be fought online.— Don Ruski

lol nice grave digg =]— jcomp6

IM BACK!! (page 2)

A dramatic 'I'm back' announcement thread turns into a pile-on over a months-old bump.

This is the tail end of a General Discussion thread where a returning member's 'I'm back!!' announcement got called out as attention-seeking for reviving an old topic. Sammo and Paws pile on the original poster ('The Blue'), with some light mockery over word-count in the back-and-forth. Pretty low-stakes forum drama, typical of the era's off-topic bickering.

This guy's a prick he bumps his old topic from months ago the attention seeking wanker.— Sammo

@ The Blue, while he used like 4 words to diss u, you used like a whole paragraph of junk.— Paws

RS speeds

A bunch of dudes bragging about their internet speeds in 2008 — welcome to the golden age of broadband envy.

A casual General Discussion thread started by Don Ruski asking members to share their minimum and maximum RapidShare (RS) download/upload speeds, referencing an older thread on the same topic from way back. Members chimed in comparing their connection speeds down to the kilobyte, a mundane but very of-its-era snapshot of pre-broadband-ubiquity internet life. Nothing dramatic happened — just regulars swapping numbers and reacting to each other's stats.

HOLY FUCK I get 310 max, maybe 100 min.— banak

I have a 4MG connection.— laptops

[DUMPERT] Epic clips written by Kimmi

A Smod's dump of early-2010s viral video links, rated funniest-first — Dutch internet humor at its finest.

A quick, low-effort General Discussion thread from February 2010 where longtime Smod Kimmi shared a batch of links to short viral clips hosted on the Dutch site Dumpert, ranking them by how 'epic' they were. It's the kind of filler thread every forum had — a couple people chime in, one clip gets singled out as the funniest, and the topic quietly dies after three posts. Notable mostly as a snapshot of the casual, meme-sharing side of the community outside the hacking/cheat talk.

Very short clips of epic things! Funniest first IMO.— Kimmi

Failure in January is funny as fuck LMAO— Mystik

Japanese humor is so.. LOL.— Kimmi

[YT] In Soviet Russia, cars test you

A random dashcam-crash clip gets a handful of laughs and a stray compliment on someone's avatar

A quick, low-effort thread in General Discussion where user ProVocation dropped a YouTube link to a wild Russian car-crash/dashcam-style video. A handful of regulars piled in with one-line reactions, laughing at the footage, with nullvoid derailing briefly to compliment ProVocation's avatar. Nothing deep here — just a snapshot of the forum's casual, meme-sharing everyday chatter between the site's 1K Club regulars.

LMFAO i laughed so hard at this, it looks like hes on an airplane fighting some major G forces p.s your avatar is so sexy— nullvoid

LMAO guy gets thrown around like a toy haha— trs

The EpicGamerz Affiliate Pitch That Nobody Wanted

A brand-new member wandered in asking for an affiliate swap — and got roasted for a dead link within two hours.

A one-post member calling themselves 'EpicGamerz' showed up promoting a similar site and proposing a forum affiliation with a VIP-access exchange. The link was immediately reported dead by regulars, who suggested going through the moderators instead. One long-time member called out the poster for repeatedly recreating their forums, seemingly a recurring annoyance. It's a small, forgettable thread that captures the everyday texture of forum life: outside sites constantly angling for cross-promotion, and the regulars' low patience for it.

dead link...— Marc347

dude no offence....but you keep redoing the forums. It's annoying.— -Darkness-

mpc shit center

A staffer publicly wished for 'a good hacker' to go mess up a rival site — thread got closed same day for 'failing'

A short-lived General Discussion thread where a Fkn0wned staff member ('Industry') vented about a rival site (referred to as 'mpc') whose members allegedly came into Fkn0wned trying to act '1337' and spam, only to flop. He floated the idea of someone retaliating against the site, half-jokingly asking where a 'good hacker' was when you needed one. A Supervisor ('Don Ruski') replied, but the thread was shut down by a moderator that same day with the note 'Thread Failed,' cutting the drama short before it could develop.

why doesn't someone just go mess that site up already...they are getting kinda aggravating.— Industry

where is a good hacker when you need one?— Industry

Google Earth Your House

Members shared satellite screenshots of their own homes back when that felt like magic, not a privacy nightmare.

A lighthearted General Discussion thread where members posted Google Earth screenshots of their houses, campuses, and neighborhoods, trading jokes and jabs about what could (or couldn't) be seen from above. It ran to at least three pages, with regulars like twitceh, Marc347, Shifty, and Famousss chiming in. Nothing dramatic here — just a classic mid-2000s forum time-killer thread showing off a then-novel piece of tech.

oh yeh you can see red buses.— twitceh

do cavemen live in your garden?— Shifty

WHATS THEASE? - random image confusion thread

A guy posts a mystery screenshot, gets clowned, thread gets closed with a shrug: "fixed"

A member named Killer-k posted an image asking what it was, seemingly a display or forum-formatting issue rather than an actual question about content. Jack Daniels jumped in with typical fkn0wned brand of hostility, calling it a stupid thread while identifying the image as rapidshare account listings, before Co-Manager DCLXVI stepped in to correct him and point Killer-k toward the 'Standard' display option to fix his viewing issue. The thread was closed by staff shortly after with the terse reason 'fixed'.

rapidshare accounts. and quit making stupid threads you moron.— Jack Daniels

Jack Daniels, watch it, you didn't actually look properly to see his problem.— DCLXVI

A Reintroduction - Old CS 1.6 Coder Resurfaces

A former cheat coder from the original fkn0wned crawls back out of the woodwork in late 2007

A member going by FataLFx, who claimed to have coded Counter-Strike 1.6 cheats back during the very first incarnation of fkn0wned and the original cheat-network, pops back into the forum after finding the site still alive. He muses about picking coding back up for Source instead of 1.6, and notes that hardly any familiar faces remain. A handful of regulars (mr.N0Nam3, sorbazz, waLLa) welcome him back with the kind of dry, jokey greeting typical of the board.

Welcome <back> to hell.— mr.N0Nam3

you joined a year ago? is it that long ago really? anyway welcome back!!!!!1111one— sorbazz

:( - a quiet check-in thread

An old member pops back in just to say hi, and the forum's own decline becomes the real topic.

A returning member named nullvoid drops a low-key 'hey, haven't been around' post after a long absence, mostly just checking on the state of the forum. A handful of members, including staff, reply with friendly greetings, but the thread quietly doubles as evidence of the community thinning out, with a mod openly admitting they need more active members. It's a small, unremarkable thread on its face, but it captures that late-era forum feeling of familiar faces trickling back to find the place emptier than they left it.

been a long time since ive visited the computer lol.. been workin alot.. and just wanted to see how the forum is doing.. hi— nullvoid

Hey man, glad to see you here. We need more active members.— Panda

The Best of 2007

A year-end 'best of everything' list turns into a Linkin Park pile-on.

A member kicks off a lighthearted year-end tradition, listing his picks for best album, movie, video game, and TV show of 2007, inviting others to add their own categories. The thread quickly becomes a small skirmish over musical taste (Linkin Park catches heat) and a reminder that Call of Duty 4 was the game everyone insisted you had to play. Standard casual chatter for the Off-Topic board, with a couple of staff members chiming in.

LINKIN PARK?!?!? I wouldn't even consider putting Linkin Park in the top 1000.— miLLer

dude you need a life if you havent played COD 4 -.-— jcomp6

fkn0wned Friend

Who was your fkn0wned bestie? Members reminisce about the buddies they made on the boards.

A casual General Discussion thread from December 2007 where a member asked others to name the person on the forum they'd connected with most, whether an old friend or a recent one. Replies were short and personal, with regulars naming specific usernames as their 'fknbuddy.' It's a small, sentimental slice of community bonding rather than any drama or tech talk.

fknbuddy sounds funny...hahah....anyway i gotta say 2 because i didnt really plan on making "friends" peski ri0t dont know if they feel the same about me...— Industry

tux over the past month.— NoNamE!

Online Clothing Stores? — cheap/replica gear thread

Forum tries to solve New Year's Eve outfit shopping with a side of knockoff fashion links

A member named inSpired asks the General Discussion crowd for cheap online clothing sites (openly fine with replica/wholesale knockoffs) ahead of New Year's, listing a handful of legit and fake-fashion sites he'd already found. A few regulars chime in with their own go-to stores like Jackthreads, CCS, Karmaloop, Costco, and Drjays, but inSpired shoots most of them down for not being cheap or shipping worldwide. It's a small, mundane slice-of-life thread — no drama, just late-2009 forum members talking about where to buy clothes.

Really don't care about the kids in the work-shops!— inSpired

None of those sites were cheap, or shipped world-wide.— inSpired

Pheroline: Spray-On Pheromones, Real or Scam?

A 2008 thread asking the internet's most trusted authority — a CS 1.6 forum — whether pheromone spray actually works

User aznfirez floats the idea of buying 'Pheroline,' a spray-on pheromone product, half-joking about wanting an easy shortcut to attracting people. A couple of members chime in with mild amusement, including zm0ney noticing a testimonial supposedly from someone in his own hometown, which gets flagged as funny/suspicious. A tiny, low-effort but charmingly random slice of early 2000s internet snake-oil skepticism.

lmao i would buy it.— KZA

"I used to have a problem getting dates. Thanks to Pheroline, now my only problem is scheduling." - Rob, Rochester, NY Haha That was one of the testomonials and i live in rochester— zm0ney