Doomworld's history

Doomworld really is a unique community. I've been reading through the depths of posthell, the only place where a newbie like me can find some old threads, and I think it's very good stuff. I hear the veterans of Doomworld speak of all-time favourite threads, so I'd like to learn more about this community and it's history.

Please write down what you think are the most memorable moments of Doomworld, or the best threads ever seen. To me, the Shadowrunner-ordeal comes to mind, or the infamous spammer Unicorn. What are your all-time favourites?

You might try this thread for a start.

This thread might be of use:

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7376

Joe Todd
The COPPA incident
NewDoom's Disaster

Heh, that Joe Todd person was pretty baffling. Cool stuff.

Woolie Wool's Slige Megawad

DW Forums Drinking Game (original)

DW Forums Drinking Game (update)

There were also various newstuff flamewars, funny polls in blogs and of course the heh thread (which is now sadly deceased, taking chunks of postcount with it).

Speaking of flamewars, I remember that big Doom64 TC flamewar and the subsequent NewDoom Exodus about a month later.

Hmmm, I'm wondering... what's with that "I AM A MORON I AM A MORON"-stuff?

EDIT: That Exodus, wasn't that the thread where everyone said they were leaving Doomworld?

Terra-jin said:

Hmmm, I'm wondering... what's with that "I AM A MORON I AM A MORON"-stuff?

timeline

that's the answer

Nope. That's where Phoebus went on another one of his banning frenzies and wiped out what seemed like half of the members. They all ended up over here, and several others followed. He eventually let a lot of them back in, probably because NewDoom was empty.

Man, Woolie's whole SLIGE megawad thing was just great. I don't think i thought so at the time though.

*looks over the thread*

No, i definitly wasn't impressed.

How could you guys have not mentioned Fiffy yet? In the early days he was quite the legend... The whole SA fiasco was just priceless.

gatewatcher said:

timeline

that's the answer

Now it's XD.

haha, so it works in vB code as well then...

(I already use that on a BB code forum to evade censorship)

Action!

the doomserv hacking controversy was the last megahuge flamewar i was personally involved in.. oh wait i guess i was involved in the doom64 thing.

Lüt died and rose again

Terra-jin said:

Hmmm, I'm wondering... what's with that "I AM A MORON I AM A MORON"-stuff?

I think that was when people using the "³" instead of "3" when referencing Doom 3.

Well, there's the whole Username saga. Sadly, I could only find the end of it:

http://www.doomworld.com/forums/doom3/messages/11580.shtml
http://www.doomworld.com/forums/doom3/messages/11669.shtml

And here's me being retarded:

http://www.doomworld.com/forums/doom3/messages/11345.shtml
http://www.doomworld.com/forums/doom3/messages/11330.shtml

Man, the old Doom3 forums are great. They were all speculation back then. Fun times.

The old Doom 3 forums are legend. People were a lot funnier back then when stupid n00bs got their asses (and innards) fried and deadnail posted Doom rap song lyrics.

Ling's "quitting" thread has a fair bit of dw history, from his personal perspective:

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12253

Nobody mentioned [bbg] yet?

Ichor said:

Nope. That's where Phoebus went on another one of his banning frenzies and wiped out what seemed like half of the members. They all ended up over here, and several others followed. He eventually let a lot of them back in, probably because NewDoom was empty.

Mainly because certain people bitched at him for doing it.

Well, that too.

bahahahahaaa I forgot all about this one

The same Fiffy who made those horrible levels?

Grimm said:

The same Fiffy who made those horrible levels?

Yes, one and the same, featuring the patented "eXtreme detail" (or whatever he called it).

When DW first got their forums, Fiffy decided to test if the img tag worked. Harmless enough, but what he decided to post was some ultraviolence from Rotten.com or some similar gore site (he had a thing for including images like that with his maps at the time too, as I recall).

Well, he gets promptly banned and decides to go off to the Something Awful forums (which were free at the time) to "rally his troops" against the "evil nazi webmasters" at DW. Most people didn't know wtf he was talking about and could care less, but a ton of DW people started a giant flamewar with him. Fiffy was still living the illusion that he had friends at SA and that Lowtax (for some inexplicable reason) would come to his rescue and attack DW.

Unfortunately for him, it turns out that Lowtax and some other webmaster whose names also starts with L were friends, so his little plan backfired. Hard. Lowtax flamed him to hell and back and probably shattered his epic ego into a million pieces (for a day or two, anyway).

After that I believe he started some more trash with SA and also became an infamous enemy of that site. Of course he has more scandals with the Doom community (I seem to remember a string of emails between him and prower), but I think this stands out as his lasting legacy.

Any of you guys remember Geno Breaker? Man, that dude was crazy!

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=81521&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

Check out the "more doomed dreams" thread and you'll find some of his more "memorable" stuff in there!

5 Years of Doom
10 Sectors
The age of Boom/Doom Legacy

The Ultimate DooMer said:

Woolie Wool's Slige Megawad

Why is there a porn link in that thread?