To my knowledge "Zork" was a word used by computer geeks at MIT for just about everything, as in "give me that zork over there."
Its origins are lost in time; it may have been the book you mentioned, but its not the only place the word "zork" was used. For example, Mattel, I think, had toys named "Chopcyles," which predate the text adventure, and one of them was named "Mighty Zork Chopcyle" - http://www.theweaponshop.com/sizzlers.html We could guess that the future Infocom authors may have played with those toys as kids and carried the word over to their college life. Or they read that book. Marco Howard Feldman schrieb: > > I seem to remember reading somewhere that Zork was named after a mid-70's poetry > book called 'A Hastily Thrown Together Bit of Zork'. Can't seem to find where I > read it with google. Does anyone know if this is true? Does anyone have the > book? Is it also true that only 150 copies of the book were released into > general circulation? Just wondered how 'collectible' the book is, since Ive > never seen it. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------- > Howard Feldman, Author of The Search for Freedom > A Computer Fantasy Role-Playing Game > Visit its Homepage at http://home.golden.net/~feldman/SearchForFreedom/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to > the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' > Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
