User blog comment:Deathstalker666/QuakeWikia (Circa 1996)/@comment-1496755-20180710211400

This is sooooo 1990's stuff. FAQs were a significant thing back then since there were no forums and social networks were still far in the future. There was usually that one dedicated fan who would make a big and thorough FAQ, and if it was deemed good enough, it could be adopted as an "official FAQ" and bundled with the game - one of the best examples is the Doom FAQ, which was included starting with version 1.666, and had grown so long by the time of Ultimate Doom, that it had to be split into four parts (some old computers had problems opening large TXT files, heh heh). These FAQs grew to huge sizes because they had to include all possible info, for the sake of internetless people out there - even info that only one specific person somewhere in Antarctica might need once in a blue moon.