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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Monday, August 02, 2004The Age of DoomTime: " It was the janitor who showed John Carmack that the world had changed. In 1993 Carmack was working on a new kind of video game for a tiny company called id Software. He had written games before, but nobody except computer geeks had cared much about them. 'I remember showing some people games that I liked on the Apple II,' Carmack remembers, 'and just having them sit there, completely not comprehending what could be enjoyable about moving these little guys around. People just did not get it.' But this game was different. 'We noticed that the janitor coming in to empty the trash had just been sitting there staring at the game — for a long time,' he says. 'The game had this power: it could affect normal people.' The game was called Doom, and the janitor was among the first of us normal people to get a look at the electronic frontier of the coming century. With Doom, Carmack and his colleagues had created a three-dimensional virtual world so powerful, compelling and disturbing that it would change the real world around it. This week id will launch Doom 3, four years in the making. It is, if anything, a little too real. [ Posted at 9:49 AM | Permalink ]
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