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I looked into the well known triva about name of most popular text adventure.
General jargon like foobar is not that far off in meaning from "unfinished software". I think it's possible there's not really a contradiction between the different sources. The "unfinished software" meaning in the NYT article might have just been an example of one possible use of a more general nonsense word.
Before I came across Zork, I thought I was quite intelligent...
Spellbreaker was the one that broke me.
I spent countless hours as a kid trying to figure out the games secrets. Only, 20-years later, did I read that you were supposed to be collecting specific items and putting them in the trophy case to "win".
Clearly “zork” is a mispronunciation of “source”. ;)