The very first version was released by Crowther in 1976, in FORTRAN on
the PDP-10 at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. (Crowther was at the time
writing what we could now call firmware for the earliest ARPANET
-routers) It was a maze game based on the Colossal Cave complex in
+routers.) It was a maze game based on the Colossal Cave complex in
Kentucy, lacking the D&D-like elements now associated with the game.
Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was
== Nomenclature ==
-This project is called "Open Adventure" because it's not at all clear
+This project is called "Open Advent" because it's not at all clear
to number Adventure past 2.5 without misleading or causing
collisions. Various of the non-mainline versions have claimed to be
versions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and for all I know higher than that. It seems
best just to start a new numbering series while acknowledging the
-links back.
+links back. I have reverted to "Advent" to avoid a name collision
+with the BSD Games version.
== Sources ==