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HTMLGoodies.com: Your source for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Web Development Tutorials and Primers! 2009
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If you want a tag named "zork" that allows you to turn text green and change the font size to 24 point, you can create it.
HTMLGoodies.com: Your source for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Web Development Tutorials and Primers! 2009
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Zork - The word 'zork' was slang for an unfinished program.
BBspot 2009
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If you want a tag named "zork" that allows you to turn text green and change the font size to 24 point, you can create it.
HTMLGoodies.com: Your source for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Web Development Tutorials and Primers! 2009
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That is a quarter-century, for those of you who like more flourish, a game I first attended as an acne-bedazzled zork of 18 years old in January 1986 with my future brother-in-law Jon Vaden and my still-wonderful-friend Kendall Crosswell.
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That is a quarter-century, for those of you who like more flourish, a game I first attended as an acne-bedazzled zork of 18 years old in January 1986 with my future brother-in-law Jon Vaden and my still-wonderful-friend Kendall Crosswell.
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At 2008-04-17 on 8: 47 p.m. spring break oh how i love thee! monday: i bought a pink cruiser from target. tuesday: me and christine met up at 1130. rode our bikes to fremont for a few hours. went to sports center to visit valerie at zork. went to piedmontey cause we wanted to bike around three cities. so i came home at 6: 30. biking for 7 hours.
cest-karen Diary Entry cest-karen 2008
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They might date a complete zork believing that the zork will never leave them, not realizing the zork pines for the fjords of every other woman on earth.
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They might date a complete zork believing that the zork will never leave them, not realizing the zork pines for the fjords of every other woman on earth.
lulu lumens 2007
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In two weeks, I'd gone from fashionless zork with terrible skin, zero affection, and accoutrements stuck in the mid-1970s ... to being a happy, wine-cooler sipping fratboy with a hot date to the pledge formal.
venti anni fa 2006
oroboros commented on the word zork
the name of that homunculus that sits behind your eyes with the levers of behavior in his fevered hands...
if you're interested see: jancox.com
December 1, 2006
alexz commented on the word zork
Long long ago, it was a place in Scotland. http://goo.gl/5iHPU Oct 1568 "repairs at Zork"
http://goo.gl/iDb6Q c. 1711
Zork http://goo.gl/ftsKb 1709
http://goo.gl/p7wFE 1841
1975, Zork is mentioned as part of a Mathematical problem http://goo.gl/lqQRI
I'm not sure if that math class was taken by the person who made the computer game.
1976 book, The Blue Stone http://goo.gl/AJisF
Then in 1980, we had the command line computer game http://goo.gl/xiq3u Byte magazine.
Wikipedia's article on Zork the game, says that their word came from MIT Hacker slang for an unfinished program. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
In looking through old Google books, it's a person's name, a character's name in stories, and sometimes the name of hardware companies.
January 2, 2013