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> For some reason, however, id Software would begin distributing updates and news about their games through this protocol.

Maybe it was a bit weird, but didn't seem that random. Meeting a need somewhere in the times between BBSes and full-on WWW.... and even as the web took off more gaming sites used to post the latest plan files as updates. Micro-blogging before it was a thing!