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Stargate was a datacenter company, bought by MDH a few years ago and is now owned by Latisys. The domain name has been passed along.

It's a pretty common sci-fi term and books have been named it as early as 1958. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(disambiguation)?1=1

The most notable use that comes to mind for me is that in the 2001: A Space Odyssey book the monolith around Saturn is called a stargate.

Try 1981.

But the videogame had been out for five. Who knows?