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'''Doom Center''' (or '''Doomcenter''') was founded in March of 2001 by [[Ben "bigd" Swarts]] as an affiliate site of the Media and Games Online Network, or MGON. It established a name for itself early on by publishing a large amount of feature articles, such as WAD previews, interviews, and profiles of various community members, known as "WADsters". It also offered a downloads section with various [[Doom]]-related files, as well as discussion forums.
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'''Doom Center''' (or '''Doomcenter''') was founded in March of 2001 by [[Ben Swarts (bigd)]] as an affiliate site of the Media and Games Online Network, or MGON. It established a name for itself early on by publishing a large amount of feature articles, such as WAD previews, interviews, and profiles of various community members, known as "WADsters". It also offered a downloads section with various [[Doom]]-related files, as well as discussion forums.
  
Several community members spent some time as contributors to the site, such as [[Dean "deathz0r" Joseph]], [[John "anarkavre" Corrado]], and [[Boris Iwanski]]. However, only Swarts and [[Bill "Bloodshedder" Koch]] (who joined in May of 2001) would remain with the site until its closing in January of 2003, shortly before MGON declared bankruptcy. The two then became staff members at [[Doomworld]].
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Several community members spent some time as contributors to the site, such as [[Dean Joseph (deathz0r)]], [[John Corrado (anarkavre)]], and [[Boris Iwanski]]. However, only Swarts and [[Bill Koch (Bloodshedder)]], who joined in May of 2001, would remain with the site until its closing in January of 2003, shortly before MGON declared bankruptcy. The two then became staff members at [[Doomworld]].
  
The domain Doomcenter.com is currently [[Wikipedia:Domain parking|parked]] with a [[Wikipedia:robots.txt|robots.txt]] disallowing crawlers. Thus, [http://www.archive.org archive.org] is unable to index the site.
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==External links==
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20030204111110/http://doomcenter.com/ Final design of Doom Center]
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20021201041248/http://www.doomcenter.com/ Initial and longest-running look of Doom Center]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 12:25, 27 March 2017

Doom Center (or Doomcenter) was founded in March of 2001 by Ben Swarts (bigd) as an affiliate site of the Media and Games Online Network, or MGON. It established a name for itself early on by publishing a large amount of feature articles, such as WAD previews, interviews, and profiles of various community members, known as "WADsters". It also offered a downloads section with various Doom-related files, as well as discussion forums.

Several community members spent some time as contributors to the site, such as Dean Joseph (deathz0r), John Corrado (anarkavre), and Boris Iwanski. However, only Swarts and Bill Koch (Bloodshedder), who joined in May of 2001, would remain with the site until its closing in January of 2003, shortly before MGON declared bankruptcy. The two then became staff members at Doomworld.

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