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Sachmo: indeed, it was originally Hack. I believe Hack was a direct spin-off from Rogue, the father of all Roguelike-games. When the sourcecode was published for Hack and it became a large distributed development effort to maintain and develop the game (one of the worlds first opensource projects) involving the entire 'net' the game was given the monkier "Nethack"

what the heck was this thread originally about, anyway?