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The Murky Origins of Zork's Name
mjn writes "Computational media researcher Nick Montfort traces the murky origins of Zork's name. It's well known that the word was used in MIT hacker jargon around that time, but how did it get there? Candidates are the term 'zorch' from late 1950s DIY electronics slang, the use of the term as a placeholder in some early 1970s textbooks, the typo a QWERTY user would get if he typed 'work' on an AZERTY keyboard, and several uses in obscure sci-fi. No solid answers so far, though, as there are problems with many of the possible explanations that would have made MIT hackers unlikely to have run across them at the right time."
Pics or it didn't happen.
With this argument, we could say that the Democrat-controlled Congress has done almost nothing in the past year or so, especially in regards to healthcare reform...
When politicians are involved, everyone loses.
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