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I remember the event well, because the download became available the day before finals. Things did not end well.

• firesteelrain 3y ago
  On bbs?
  • tcmb 3y ago
    On the FTP server of the University of Wisconsin. Romero tells this story where people are hanging around in the upload directory, waiting for the Doom shareware release to drop, creating text files expressing their impatience.
    • firesteelrain 3y ago
      Ah hmm, I don’t recall the Internet being generally available until 1994/1995 (that’s when we got dialup services in my area). It must have been a bunch of university students