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.
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.
This article has some research into possible origins of the name: https://nickm.com/post/2010/01/a-note-on-the-word-zork/comme...
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.
Ah, but there are plenty of folk etymologies which, although they make a lot of logical sense, aren't true.
Also, W and Z are switched in the AZERTY keyboard. So maybe someone mistyped work on the wrong layout??
I can't imagine there were lots of AZERTY keyboards kicking around MIT?
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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zork&diff=prev&ol...
might be a more informative link to the specific change, btw.
https://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html
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ZORCH: to attack with an inverse heat sink.Another of David Sawyer's sound effects, which I reinterpreted as a colorful variant of "scorch."