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The archive was preceded by an informal set of disjoint archives on various university [[Wikipedia:File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] servers, including wuarchive.wustl.edu and ftp.uwp.edu, beginning in December 1993 with the release of Doom. The need to have a centralized and moderated location where all files could be uploaded and then mirrored from led Barry Bloom to create an authoritative archive at ocf.unt.edu in March 1994. However, administrators eventually disapproved of the use of resources, forcing a move of the primary archive to a new server at infant2.sphs.indiana.edu, at [[Wikipedia:Indiana University|Indiana University]], administered primarily by Jim Pitts beginning in May 1994.
The server at infant2 gathered a strong set of mirrors, and persisted until November 1994 when Jim Pitts lost administrative access to the server. ftp.orst.edu was promoted as a temporary primary site, but users were not able to successfully upload files to that server. It was picked up a month later by {{wp|Walnut Creek CDROM}}, also known by its domain name of cdrom.com, which was already a mirror. It was now originally administered by a team consisting of Joost Schuur, Jeff Makaiwi, and [[Frans P. de Vries]]. In October 2001, cdrom.com was purchased by a new parent company and announced that it would no longer host such archives. The archive was moved to its present location at gamers.org at this that time, with the primary download server hosted at 3darchives.in-span.net, until its discontinuation in January 2005.
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