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Perhaps I'm wrong but the opening sentence - "At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the
by ojbyrne 13y ago
Perhaps I'm wrong but the opening sentence - "At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington’s network" - seems inaccurate - the big ftp site back then was actually Washington University St. Louis - a different entity than U of W.
- EvanAnderson 13y agoYes-- wuarchive.wustl.edu and ftp.wustl.edu are what I was thinking of, too. I fondly remember pulling Aminet and Linux-related files off those servers back in the early-to-mid 90s.
- peterashford 13y agoAhh.... me too. The Amiga community was great. sigh
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- schainks 13y agoSigh... wired fails at citations again. From Masters of Doom: "A sympathetic computer administrator at the University at Wisconsin, Parkside, named David Datta volunteered to let id upload the Doom shareware to a file transfer site he maintained on the school’s network." (page 123) Edit: formatting