Really old DOOM web sites.

[NaturalTvventy]

Do any really old, abandoned DOOM web sites still exist? Maybe some of the first to feature news, or reviews of custom WADs. If they don't exist any more, what happened to them?

NT

[hex11]

This is actually a mirror (originally it was on an .edu site):
http://www.gamers.org/doomgate/
Anyway, it's one of the earliest "big" Doom Internet websites that I found in 1995 (I mean other than FTP sites like ftp.cdrom.com and a few Usenet newsgroups).

This one is still at the same location as always:
http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~quinet/games/DEU/DEU-en.html

Most geocities sites are gone, but some have been mirrored, for example:
http://www.oocities.org/hollywood/2979/

Much newer (late 90's), but very good PWAD reviews:
http://games.moria.org.uk/doom/du/

Predates source ports:
http://www.samba.org/dumb/

[andrewj]

hex11 said:

Predates source ports:
http://www.samba.org/dumb/

I remember DUMB, and made a few contributions too iirc (many hard-drives ago). Too bad the download link for it no longer works.

[hex11]

This link worked for me:
ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/dumb/source/dumb-src-latest.tar.gz

I can even browse their FTP server. That file is actually dumb-0.13.11 from 1999. I copied it here in case their FTP server is acting up:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gxu5k6

[Porsche Monty]

There's this very well known doomer who mirrored the first webpage that he saw back in the 90's. It is (or was?) one of the oldest surviving pages as of a few years ago, but I can't for the love of me remember his name, let alone the name of the author, though I remember the page actually showing a tiled background, so it was ancient but probably not like 1993-ancient.

Any ideas?

[GreyGhost]

Here's an old one.

Purple Frog Mission Editor for Unix/Linux - June 1995

[General Rainbow Bacon]

I remember the Wadoscope from way back. It's gone now.

[Csonicgo]

Whatever happened to Mr Doom's web page?

[Porsche Monty]

Mr.Doom, that was it. The doomer I was talking about is Janizdreg. Not sure why I inferred he mirrorwed the website, though.

http://www.geocities.ws/teeprint/

[Urchlay]

GreyGhost said:
Purple Frog Mission Editor for Unix/Linux - June 1995 [/B]

Was source to this ever available?

[fraggle]

Lee Killough's Doom pages.

[Xaser]

DOOM, DAMNIT

[Ed]

lol - First thing you read on Doom Damnit is '/me spanks'

Ah, simpler times.

Also:
http://www.sonic.net/~mortlgrn/doom.html

Classic.

[GreyGhost]

Urchlay said:

Was source to this ever available?

Not so far as I know, it was shareware. I have the distribution files if anyone's interested.

[Technician]

Seeing web pages like these make's me feel so old.

[Urchlay]

GreyGhost said:

I have the distribution files if anyone's interested.

I found a pfme.zip you posted to an old thread. The binary is so old, it's not even ELF. I may try to install Slackware 1.0 in a VM and see if it runs...

[Mordeth]

Doomworld sprang forth from three other websites, among which Linguica's Functional Entropy and my own Mordeth site. The latter one is still available, and still contains all the pre-Doomworld general Doom news updates in the archives. This dates back to August 1997.

[kmxexii]

Doom Reviews for the Recreational User, last review from '97.

There's a defunct link to a list of TiC's favorite WADs there.

[Scuba Steve]

Uh... Doomworld?

This site has been around for, what, 14 years now? 3 different decades? Just go to the main page and look at the projects section... it's a goddamn time capsule.

[HavoX]

kmxexii said:

TiC

I still miss those guys... they've designed the best looking flamethrower I have ever seen in a Doom wad.

[The Pursuer]

I remember visiting a webpage for Doom way back then that i can't recall. It had a ton of wad links with short reviews alongside them. I think the site background used the green vine texture (maybe?) from the game. After links started dying on the site i stopped going there, then the site's name domain faded into into the back of my mind. I wouldn't mind seeing it again for nostalgia's sake.

[hex11]

Found this in a TXT file. Last site update: Oct 1998:
http://www.thepivot.net/the_tower/

And I guess this is the salvaged Mr. Doom website:
http://www.oocities.org/teeprint/

[NiTROACTiVE]

All these old websites based on Doom are very interesting. Even though I never heard of these websites, they still look cool.

[DoomGater]

Don't forget Led:
http://classicdoom.com/

..and TeamTNT:
http://teamtnt.com

..and Teapot:
http://www.doomworld.com/pageofdoom/

...and my own one, the german http://doomgate.de is around
since '99. does that count?

[GreyGhost]

Dr FunFrocks Ifrag is still around - 16 years young.

[Maes]

No, Doomworld. You ARE the demons.

And then Doomworld was a really old DOOM web site.

[[PROTOTYPE]]

Doom Depot. Though I can't say it's that old, it was really good. Went down unfortunately.

R.I.P. Doom Depot

[Triple_sSs]

I remember OldDoom, it was a pretty cool older site I think. Too bad it shut down a while back.

[Pirx]

hex11 said:

And I guess this is the salvaged Mr. Doom website:
http://www.oocities.org/teeprint/

exactly this one. it was the first i thought of when i saw this thread. i found several classic DM wads via that site, good to see it's still around.

some technical info here: http://www.trilobite.org/doom/doom_metrics.html

then, the already mentioned doom underground, which introduced me to some classic megawads like hr, requiem or mm2. i remember browsing that site, reading the review of hell revealed and wondering if it's really that hard.

speaking of hell revealed... yonatan's site, pretty old and abandoned.

[GreyGhost]

Triple_sSs said:

I remember OldDoom, it was a pretty cool older site I think. Too bad it shut down a while back.

There's a mirror of the site here if you're interested.