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How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)
Had history gone differently, it might have been EDSF or even ASXC.
The new movement scheme took several years to catch on, and while we can’t know whose fingers found their way to WASD first, we do have a good idea of who popularized the style: the greatest Quake player in the universe, Dennis “Thresh” Fong. As Fong’s celebrity grew, the one question everyone asked him was: “What’s your config?” His answer could be most readily found in Thresh’s Quake Bible, which describes the WASD formation as an “inverted T.” And his guide carried weight. Even before his success as a Quake player, Fong was a Doom champion, and so people imitated him, just as the kids at the basketball court by my house spend far too much time trying to hit Steph Curry’s 30-foot shots.
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