From d103fdd0e45a103ed5f4f83a32660434dcf3510f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Day Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:20:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Improve a few dates in the timeline. --- docs/research/TIMELINE.md | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/research/TIMELINE.md b/docs/research/TIMELINE.md index 1336ab4..616d5b9 100644 --- a/docs/research/TIMELINE.md +++ b/docs/research/TIMELINE.md @@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ the Summer 1982 USENIX conference took place. ### Timeline -- **1980** — **Rogue** released for Unix by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman at - UC Santa Cruz, with later contributions by Ken Arnold. +- **Fall 1980** — **Rogue** created for Unix by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman + at UC Santa Cruz. Wichman: "It caught on immediately, like wildfire." (USENET, + 1984-04-06) -- **~Summer 1980** — Brian Harvey invites Lincoln-Sudbury students to +- **Summer 1981** — Brian Harvey invites Lincoln-Sudbury students to California for a summer class he is teaching at San Francisco State University. During the trip, Jay Fenlason visits UC Berkeley and plays *Rogue* for the first time: "The summer between my sophomore and junior @@ -23,12 +24,12 @@ the Summer 1982 USENIX conference took place. obsessed person who'd been cut off, I decided to build my own." (Craddock, pp. 92) -- **~1980–81** — Fenlason creates the earliest version of Hack in **Logo** - (Turtle Graphics) on an **Apple II**. Once satisfied with the Logo +- **Summer 1981** — **Jay Fenlason** creates the earliest version of Hack + in **Logo** (Turtle Graphics) on an **Apple II**. Once satisfied with the Logo prototype, he migrates the game to C on the PDP-11/70 at Lincoln-Sudbury. (Craddock, p. 94) -- **1981–82** — **Jay Fenlason** develops Hack in C at Lincoln-Sudbury +- **Fall/Winter 1981** — Fenlason develops Hack in C at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School — his "first semester programming project" (READ_Me). The development environment is a PDP-11/70 running V7 Unix (alpha test site for 2.9BSD), administered by a student-run Computer Center Users Society @@ -165,17 +166,22 @@ Full license texts preserved in Brouwer's published account. - Neozeed, "While hunting for Hack 1.0 in usenet" (reproduces Brouwer's 1985 Usenet response about the PDP-11 version) - Usenet archives via SuperGlobalMegaCorp Altavista Archive +- Glenn Wichman, ["Rogue History: Information + Desired"](https://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2980@fortune.UUCP) (posted + 1984-04-06 to the USENET newsgroup net.sources.games) +- Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, "Dyad: 1982" (yearbook that shows + Jay Fenlason finished his junior year in 1982) ## Lineage ``` -Rogue (1980, Toy/Wichman/Arnold) +Rogue (Fall 1980, Toy/Wichman) | v -Hack in Logo (~1980-81, Apple II, Fenlason) +Hack in Logo (Summer 1981, Apple II, Fenlason) | v -Fenlason Hack in C (1981-82, PDP-11/70, Lincoln-Sudbury) +Fenlason Hack in C (Fall/Winter 1981, PDP-11/70, Lincoln-Sudbury) | +---> PDP-11 Hack (~1983, Huisjes & de Wilde, VU Amsterdam) | |