From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 19:40:08 +0000 (-0500) Subject: We can be precise to the day about the release date... X-Git-Tag: 1.10~28 X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e879e35a022c212482deec90bf57c6b3fe5caf57;p=open-adventure.git We can be precise to the day about the release date... ...because Don's original code drop at SAIL was recovered and announced on Twitter on 2021-01-01. --- diff --git a/history.adoc b/history.adoc index 0aa8f10..6e6ed22 100644 --- a/history.adoc +++ b/history.adoc @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ Kentucky, including fewer of the D&D-like elements now associated with the game. Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was -released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods in 1977 -(some sources, apparently erroneously, say 1976). That version is -sometimes known as 350-point Adventure. +released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods on June 6th, +1977 (some sources erroneously say 1976). That version is sometimes +known as 350-point Adventure. Between 1977 and 1995 Crowther and Woods themselves continued to work intermittently on the game. This main line of development culminated