Ten Years Of Doom Celebrated · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday December 10, 2003 @04:08AM from the keep-phobos-tidy dept.

mmx writes "GameSpy is partway through a week-long feature celebrating the 10th anniversary of seminal FPS Doom: 'Ten years ago today, Jay Wilbur uploaded an executable to the overloaded University of Wisconsin FTP that pretty much changed first person shooter games forever. He was having trouble because it was packed with rabid DOOM fans, slavering over the demo's imminent release. Eventually Wilbur had to have them all kicked off, and only then did he manage to get the roughly two-megabyte file online.' GameSpy's Doom timeline is pretty interesting, and Doomworld has also started a special anniversary feature. Happy birthday, Doom... and thank you, id software."

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Re:Duke Nukem sez... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-10 04:48 · Score: -1, Troll

Idiot.
Wow, already? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-10 05:22 · Score: -1, Troll

I saw this on gamespy yesterday, and I was thinking to myself, "Hmm, when will games.slashdot.org pick this up as a filler?"

I'm proud to say, in less then 24 hours! :-P