Editing Id Software (section)

=== Company name ===
The company writes its name with a lowercase ''id'', which is pronounced as in "did" or "kid", and, according to the book ''[[Masters of Doom]]'', the group identified itself as "Ideas from the Deep" in the early days of Softdisk but that, in the end, the name 'id' came from the phrase "in demand".<ref>{{Cite book |last=David Kushner |author-link=David Kushner (writer)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yyaxyKjyp2YC |title=Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture |date=April 24, 2003 |publisher=[[Random House]] |isbn=9780812972153 |access-date=May 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115094728/https://books.google.com/books?id=yyaxyKjyp2YC |archive-date=January 15, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> Disliking "in demand" as "lame", someone suggested a connection with [[Sigmund Freud]]'s psychological concept of [[Id, ego and super-ego|id]], which the others accepted.<ref name="lombardi199407">{{Cite magazine |last=Lombardi |first=Chris |date=July 1994 |title=To Hell and Back Again |url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=120 |url-status=live |magazine=Computer Gaming World |pages=20–24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002210239/http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=120 |archive-date=October 2, 2019 |access-date=November 16, 2017}}</ref> 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. Prior to an update to the website, id's History page made a direct reference to Freud.<ref>{{Cite web |title=id's History page |url=http://www.idsoftware.com/business/history/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515031735/http://www.idsoftware.com/business/history/ |archive-date=May 15, 2011 |access-date=October 25, 2010 |publisher=idsoftware.com}}</ref>