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
I don't know if it's true, but here's some info that may help.
"Hastily ..." waswritten by John Brunner, a well-regarded scienece fiction author, and published in 1974, Nice bio at http://members.aol.com/tishede/brunner.htm.
PeterHoward Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to remember
While not entirely contradicting the source you suggest, this page suggests around origin, http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Zork
"Originally, 'Zork' was a name that any unfinished program around MIT got. When the game was finished the implementors called it Dungeon, but people went on
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
To my knowledge Dungeon was dropped out of fear that the people behind
Dungeons Dragons might claim a TM conflict.
Marco
Peter Olafson schrieb:
While not entirely contradicting the source you suggest, this page
suggests around origin, http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Zork
