I did not. Perhaps I was being too harsh to criticize this particular project.

Have you really never heard of DOOM or know how old it is?

I would have thought it was quite well known among the tech crowd, even non-gamers.

Doom was released in 1993. I'm guessing that netheril96 wasn't made until 3 years later.

Tech is a very ahistorical discipline. We don't look back at the "old masters". We reinvent things every generation (or in Javascript land, every week).

As Alan Kay said, Programming is "almost a field" because it forgets its own history. As the now-typical HN commenter says, "Who is Alan Kay?"

That's truly sad. And ironic.

Sometimes we forget it, I like to see old snippets of code, to learn or for curiosity.