Well at the time, ID software was an indy company, and Doom as a shareware was somewhat of an idny game yes.
But it was a long time ago. A time that the younger can't remember or know. Internet didn't exist, HD TV didn't either.
CD players were the hot novelty and processors went up to 100 MhZ.
A phone looked like that :
<img src="http://www.eurocosm.com/Application/Images/Teleph/746-GREY-lg.jpg" border="0" />
It wasn't mobile, you had to plug it to some line for it to work.
Oh and there wasn't game for it (not really).
Good ol' times ^^