Timeline
From DoomWiki.org
Below is a timeline of Doom-related events.
Contents
Before 1993
- October 28, 1967 - John Romero is born
- August 20, 1970 - John Carmack is born
- December 14, 1990 - The first episode of Commander Keen (Marooned on Mars) is released
- February 1, 1991 - id Software is officially formed
- May 5, 1992 - Wolfenstein 3D is released
1993
- April 2 - Doom 0.4 alpha released privately
- May 22 - Doom 0.5 alpha released privately
- December 10 - Doom 0.99 shareware is released
1994
- January 15 - Heretic is released
- January 26 - The first version of the Doom Editing Utilities is released
- March 7 - The first public third-party PWAD is released
- September 30 - Doom II is released
1995
- April 30 - Ultimate Doom is released
- October 30 - Hexen is released
- December 26 - The Master Levels for Doom II is released
1996
- May 31 - Final Doom, Strife and the first version of Quake are released
- Chex Quest is released in boxes of Chex cereal
1997
- Fall - The Depths of Doom Trilogy combination pack is released
- December 23 - The Doom source code is released
1998
1999
- January 11 - Raven Software releases the source code for Heretic and Hexen.
- April 20 - The Columbine High School Massacre occurs.
- October 3 - The source code for Doom is re-released under the General Public Licence (GPL) by John Carmack, thanks to persuasion by Andrew "Linguica" Stine.
2000
2001
2002
2003
- January 29 - The Ultimate Doom Trilogy: Collector's Edition combination pack is released
- May 6 - Masters of Doom, by David Kushner, is published
2004
- August 3 - Doom 3 is made available in the US
2005
- January 5 - The Doom Wiki begins.
- April 4 - Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil is released
- September 13 - Doom RPG is released
- October 21 - Doom movie premieres in the US
2006
- February 7 - Doom movie DVD is released
