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3-11-2007 9:35 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/541c1578-62cd-4c80-b3e7-ce434cc3fa3c/EB6E3EE6-C4C0-4208-8952-EB0BE6B8F15C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Carmack&oldid=111553010" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Carmack&oldid=111553010" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Carmack&oldid=111553010"><P><B>John D. Carmack II</B> (born <A title="August 20" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_20">August 20</A>, <A title="1970" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970">1970</A>) is a widely recognized figure in the <A title="Video game industry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry">video game industry</A>. A prolific <A title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</A> <A title="Game programmer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_programmer">programmer</A>, Carmack co-founded <A title="Id Software" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software">id Software</A>, a <A title="Computer game" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_game">computer game</A> <A title="Video game developer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_developer">development company</A>, in <A title="1991" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991">1991</A>. Carmack was the lead programmer of the highly successful id computer games <I><A title="Wolfenstein 3D" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D">Wolfenstein 3D</A></I>, <I><A title="Doom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom">Doom</A></I>, <I><A title="Quake" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake">Quake</A></I>, and subsequent sequels to <I>Doom</I> and <I>Quake</I>. His revolutionary programming techniques, combined with the unique game designs of <A title="John Romero" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romero">John Romero</A>, led to a mass-popularization of the <A title="First-person shooter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter">first-person shooter genre</A> (FPS) in the <A title="1990s" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s">1990s</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Carmack&oldid=111553010"><P>Though Carmack is best known for his innovations in 3D graphics, he is also a <A title="Rocketry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketry">rocketry</A> enthusiast and the founder and lead engineer of <A title="Armadillo Aerospace" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_Aerospace">Armadillo Aerospace</A>. He has aspirations of suborbital space tourism in the short term, eventually leading to orbital space flights.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Carmack&oldid=111553010"><H1 class="firstHeading">John Carmack</H1></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EB6E3EE6-C4C0-4208-8952-EB0BE6B8F15C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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