- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
pwned did *not* arise from UT. It's older than that. I want to say it was warcraft, but it could have been some other RTS. Anyway, someone made a custom map for it and at the end it was edited so when you get beaten, instead of saying, "You have been beaten." It would say, "You have been owned." But he typoed the map so it said "You have been pwned" And it kinda stuck. That's the truth of it. If you google for "pwned" you can find this story corroborated many, many times.