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Happy birthday Quake, as id Software launched its groundbreaking 3D shooter 30 years ago today on June 22, 1996. We were here for it, so I think some (many?) of you were too, though in those early days of figuring out how to present content on the internet, my first tool for dealing with old posts piling up was the delete key, so our news story about the release is not in the archive. The passage of three decades feels like one of those optical illusions that changes depending on how you view...