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@@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ WUMPUS is a bit of retrocomputing nostalgia.  It is an *exact* clone, even
 down to the godawful user interface, of an ancient classic game.  This version
 fixes two minor bugs in my original USENET posting of the source.
 
+The original "Hunt the Wumpus" game was written by Gregory Yob in
+1973.  It was the first exploration game to use a non-grid worldmap,
+distinguishing it from earlier grid-oriented games such as Trek and
+predating even 1977's Colossal Cave Adventure.
+
+The origin date of the BASIC source from which this game was
+translated (and which is included in comments) is not known, but is
+pretty certainly before 1980 and probably close to the original 1975
+publication of the source in "Creative Computing".
+
+One historical liberty has been taken; the logo of this project is from a
+later version on the TI-99/4A with a graphical interface.
+
 SUPERHACK is a satire, structurally quite similar to WUMPUS.
 
-For updates and related resources, see http://www.thyrsus.com/~esr/home.html.
+For updates and related resources, see http://www.catb.org/~esr/wumpus/.