Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia(www.dpolakovic.space)
62 pointsby dpola7 hours ago4 comments
  • kristianp3 hours ago
    This article has some research into possible origins of the name: https://nickm.com/post/2010/01/a-note-on-the-word-zork/comme...
  • etep4 hours ago
    The edit distance form work to zork is 1.

    For this, and because of tab completions (perhaps tab completions post-date zork, but nonetheless) I find the work:zork story compelling. I have used the first letter is replaced by "z" trick many times (z-tab, done!), and that pre-dated any contemplation of the zork mystery.

    • big853 hours ago
      Ah, but there are plenty of folk etymologies which, although they make a lot of logical sense, aren't true.
    • ashenke3 hours ago
      Also, W and Z are switched in the AZERTY keyboard. So maybe someone mistyped work on the wrong layout??
      • jasonwatkinspdxan hour ago
        Certainly sounds plausible. Most of the time the first thing I do after I log in to a terminal is "cd work." And if I blundered that on a french keyboard at some point it might pop into my head as a funny thing to name a project.
      • NopIdoN2 hours ago
        xywwy
  • dpola7 hours ago
    After a month I bring a good news.
  • empressplay42 minutes ago
    https://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html

    ---The words defined in this dictionary are the property of the Tech

       Model Railroad Club of M. I. T. and all rights to use and define

   these words are strictly reserved.---
    ZORCH: to attack with an inverse heat sink.

    Another of David Sawyer's sound effects, which I reinterpreted as a colorful variant of "scorch."