Indeed, it was originally published December of 1999; it would seem that 2012 is when it was imported in to Git. https://www.shacknews.com/article/3555/quake-s

Indeed, it was originally published December of 1999; it would seem that 2012 is when it was imported in to Git. https://www.shacknews.com/article/3555/quake-source-released https://www.shacknews.com/article/3555/quake-source-released https://techreport.com/news/246/quake-source-code-released/ https://techreport.com/news/246/quake-source-code-released/ -> https://web.archive.org/web/20000229165554/https://www.idsoftware.com/q1source/q1source.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20000229165554/https://www.idsof... https://archive.org/details/Quake_source_code https://archive.org/details/Quake_source_code