Doom at 25: The FPS that wowed players, gummed up servers, and enraged admins

Who cares? Let's whip out the BFG and blow up the boss

On December 10, 1993, after a marathon 30-hour coding session, the developers at id Software uploaded the first finished copy of Doom for download, the game that was to redefine first-person shooter (FPS) genre. Hours later IT admins wanted id's guts for garters."