What does "id" stand for?

[leilei]

offended nerd is offended.

[Grenader]

Because, we should all look up to the awesomeness of OPENARENA, right LEILEI?

What a half-assed joke Openarena is, and even has the nerve to insult ID for his own jealousy

[leilei]

There's jealousy? Why should I be jealous of some Adrian Carmack skull crap?

[^misantropia^]

Nothing wrong with OA. I like it.

[a13n]

id is iq, but upside down, because the opposite of having iq is enough to play their brainless shootan games. This is why after 1993 their logo is always lowercase.

Impressive!

[Helljumper]

I don;t really care

[Scourge]

But you bothered to post about not caring.

[Eraser]

I thought iq mirrored upsidedown would make !d

[antix]

some topic we have here..

[Reptite]

i used to think it was I.D. like identification and hadn't really thought what it stood for, later i read somewhere it was just pronounced "id" like Sigmond Frued's id, ego and super-ego. so it actually came from Ideas from the Deep? would have never guessed.

[Eraser]

Here's the info from wikipedia:

The name of the company is currently written with a lowercase id, which is pronounced as in "did" or "kid", and is presented by the company as a reference to the id, a psychological concept introduced by Sigmund Freud. Evidence of the reference can be found as early as Wolfenstein 3D with the statement "that's Id, as in the id, ego, and superego in the psyche" appearing in the game's documentation. Even today, id's History page makes a direct reference to Freud.

However, when working at Softdisk, the team that later founded id Software took the name "Ideas from the Deep" (a company created by John Romero and Lane Roathe in 1989), attributing themselves as the "IFD guys". Since "id" can be seen as a shortening of IFD to "ID", some have been led to believe that it can be pronounced "eye-dee". The I was later made lowercase in the release of the second Commander Keen series, eventually followed by the D. Since Wolfenstein 3D used the "id" pronunciation together with the mixed-case "iD", it can be argued that the capitalization is purely a stylistic choice.

[Underpants?]

hi alien. i find this thread useful and informative. thanks.

[Takkie]

They named it id so people could start a topic about the name...

[Mogul]

Jesus.

[Eraser]

You called, my son?

[Mogul]

Thank you for blessing me with this amazing thread.