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The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

Zork /zork/, n. The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming; see ADVENT. Originally written on MIT-DM during 1977-1979, later distributed with BSD Unix (as a patched, sourceless RT-11 FORTRAN binary; see retrocomputing) and commercialized as ?The Zork Trilogy? by Infocom. The FORTRAN source was later rewritten for portability and released to Usenet under the name ?Dungeon?. Both FORTRAN ?Dungeon? and translated C versions are available at many FTP sites; the commercial Zork trilogy is available at http://www.ifarchive.org/. See also grue. You can play Zork via a Java Applet.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Zork Dungeon /zork/ The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming; see ADVENT. Zork was originally written on MIT-DM during the late 1970s, later distributed with BSD Unix as a patched, sourceless RT-11 Fortran binary (see retrocomputing) and commercialised as "The Zork Trilogy" by Infocom. The Fortran source was later rewritten for portability and released to Usenet under the name "Dungeon". Both Fortran "Dungeon" and translated C versions are available from many FTP archives. [Jargon File] (1998-09-21)