The history of the Dota map

Dota appeared in 2005 and was developed by Icefrog, as far as I know I exchanged some emails with him and he is a nice person.

During the years, they had the main website on dota-allstars.com and it was changed to playdota.com.

Also the download area was getdota.com, along with getdota.org and getdota.net.

Getdota.info is a backup to getdota.com keeping all the maps ready for download.

The map has evolved since those early years, making it the most popular warcraft 3 map, drawing player from the original “pg” games from battle.net, or any private servers they were playing.

The graphics improved, mostly changing the terrains, spells, etc, and new heroes and items were added into the game.

Some Dota clones appeared like heroes of  newerth, demigod, etc.

But on competition Dota is keeping its success, and is played worldwide more than the original Warcraft 3 multiplayer games.