How old is ''doomworld'' ?

[Arch-Vile NL]

Just curious for fun and out of passion for the game but how old is doomworld?

has it been around since the early days?

 

[lubba127]

simple google search says it was founded in 1998

[Lippeth]

23 years: 3 months: 3 days

[roadworx]

older than dirt

[omx32x]

older then me

[Mayomancer]

About the same age as me

[roadworx]

22 minutes ago, Mayomancer said:

About the same age as me

lol you're older than dirt

[Doomkid]

For those wondering about the 1993-1998 Doom community (and beyond), most of it can be found on old GeoCities, Angelfire and TriPod archived sites: https://doomshack.org/olddoomsites.html

 

And a huge chunk of it is archived in the old Doom UseNet groups as well. There’s still a lot from other outside sources that wasn’t archived.. and Mad Butcher has given me about 100 MORE sites to add to the Old Doom Sites page.. but yeah, a big chunk of it is saved thanks solely to Archive.org and Google Groups.

 

Doomworld has been the central hub of classic Doom since the early 00s, but there’s always been other stuff as well. Trying to archive it all can be kinda hard, but it’s worth it for Doom’s sake.

 

On 6/9/2021 at 1:53 PM, Doomkid said:

All of the old Doom Usenet stuff is archived in Google groups these days, isn’t it? I know a good chunk of it is - but sifting through it all is hard, especially since for the last 10+ years the pages have been relegated to spambot dumping grounds.. The Usenet era was way before my time, so I might be missing some links, but if you sift all the way back to the 90s and very early 00s, you can find the goods, and all the rec.games.computer.doom stuff seems to be saved, as well as the alt.games.doom stuff:

 

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.games.doom

 

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.games.doom.ii

 

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.doom.misc

 

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.doom.playing

 

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.doom.announce

 

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.doom.editing

 

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.doom.help

 

Edited June 16, 2021 by Doomkid

[VanaheimRanger]

not as old as me

[The Lone Wolf]

14 hours ago, Lippeth said:

23 years: 3 months: 3 days

Yes he is 23 years old and now studying at a college and trying to find a suitable job for this summer to save some money to pay student taxes.

Damn some old fellas say when he was at age 15. He was into satanism or someshit just before dope-fish became a phenomenon again.

He also had his own pocket hell dimension to put naughty friends for a while.

[Tony_Pepporoni]

7 hours ago, roadworx said:

lol you're older than dirt

I'm sure he's younger than Chief Keef and i believe he could only drive legally when he released his Finally Rich album

[Jello]

I found the site when I was a Freshman in highschool. I was perusing the school library and stumbled upon "Knee Deep in the Dead".

 

I read it, and it was alright. Then I thought about the fact that I hadn't really played Doom since Quake came out, and that I should look at what was happening with Doom. 20 years later, here I am.

[The_MártonJános]

Older than Linguica himself was when he founded it.

[SilverMiner]

is old as hell

[Doom-X-Machina]

4,965,458,631 years...

[PeterMoro]

1991

[Maes]

Some age. Others, mature.

[Spladam]

@Doomkid You just sent me down a Usenet rabbit hole of nostalgia. The best thing about Google archiving the old Usenet in Google Groups is all the folks replying to 20yo video game questions and console war flame post. It warms my heart. 

I often wonder how many how many folks reading Doomworld these days are younger than the forum itself. 

[UnknDoomer]

Centuries ago in a time of darkness, fury and conspiracy (that today known as WEB 1.0) there were some strangers. One of them was called Linguica and one another Not Jabba...

I often wonder how many how many folks reading Doomworld these days are younger than the forum itself.

And till today nobody really know who was Jabba by other hand.

 

Edited June 16, 2021 by UnknDoomer

[Dexiaz]

It was created almost a week ago.

[SLOTH MARINE (CB)]

I'm pretty sure doomworld was created in 1999, so that would mean it is 22 years old or approaching that age.

[lokbustam257]

Years = 2021-1998 = 23

Months = 276 + 6 = 282

Days = 23 years = 8395 + 180 = 8575

 

There you go. If you count by years, it's 23. If months, then it's 282, and if you count it by days (not accurate) it's 8575

Edited June 16, 2021 by lokbustam257
Credit to DoomWiki.org for the image

[Sammy J]

23 hours ago, Arch-Vile NL said:

has it been around since the early days?

 

Last millennium when people launched Pong from A:

 

Yep.

[out_of_service]

I remember when ZanZan was featured on the front page of Doomworld. Oh those were the days.

[roadworx]

13 hours ago, Spladam said:

I often wonder how many how many folks reading Doomworld these days are younger than the forum itself. 

quite a few, myself included (although only by two years)

[Arch-Vile NL]

haha seems to be quite old funny to see it still so alive :P

[OleBumma]

older than yo granny.