alt Hacker NewsAlso, W and Z are switched in the AZERTY keyboard. So maybe someone mistyped work on the wrong layout??
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jasonwatkinspdx • today at 2:12 AM
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.
Cpoll • today at 3:19 AM
I can't imagine there were lots of AZERTY keyboards kicking around MIT?
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NopIdoN • today at 12:34 AM
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This is mentioned in the article "A Note on the Word 'Zork'", linked right above the 'pterodactyl chopper':
https://web.archive.org/web/20100112110305/https://nickm.com...