[joshumax]

Funny how two people can hack two separate home phones to run DOOM without realizing it until after the fact. For perspective, I posted a blog article about modifying a CaptionCall phone to run DOOM at the same time [1] as this was posted! What a unique coincidence!

1: https://joshumax.github.io/general/2021/08/11/running-doom-o...

[bitexploder]

Amusingly I see this happen all the time in the information security domain. Two researchers coming out with the same results at basically the same time and they were isolated and doing the work independently. It happens in science and other areas so often. It’s an interesting phenomenon for sure. Maybe someone has named it and thought more about it. I just imagine we are all primed with roughly the same information and resources and these lovely little coincidences pop up from time to time, relatively often.

[J5892]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

"Multiple Discovery" is kind of on the nose, but it works.

[spockz]

I think “Zeitgeist” is the prevalent term here.

Or maybe it more the cause of multiple discovery, reading the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist

[randomswede]

Or possibly "steam-engine time".

[userbinator]

I found it amusing that this time, both the article submitter and the second person to do a similar hack are named Josh. Perhaps that's slightly less common.

[hapidjus]

Synchronicity?

[mstade]

Serendipity perhaps? As an aside, it's one of my favorite words. In my opinion it's a beautiful configuration of letters that's sounds lovely when saying it, and the meaning of it is equally wonderful. As a word, it makes me happy.

[hoyd]

What happened to "Cellar door"? :-)

[userbinator]

It’s also quite capable, sporting an ARMv7 i.MX6 Quad SoC, 4GB of NAND, and a whopping 1GB! of DDR3

I guess as a follow-up challenge, you could try to run Android on it.

[pwdisswordfish8]

It’s almost as if Doom were a go-to example to demonstrate running arbitrary code on obscure devices.

https://i.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom

[sva_]

I didn't know that reddit subdomain. Seems to be identical to https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/.compact

[mintplant]

It's a shortcut to the old mobile site, yeah. "i" for iPhone. Not to be confused with i.redd.it, which hosts images.

[CyberDildonics]

That's just a different link to the same subreddit.

[TedDoesntTalk]

Yes, there’s a long history of it ever since the source code was either open-sourced or just made public.

[jalbertoni]

I mean, Newton and Leibniz figured out calculus at the same time in slightly different ways. It is common enough, but still a nice coincidence when it happens.

[jbverschoor]

next step: multiplayer

[mdp2021]

Bolyai and Lobacevskij, again and again!