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 # History
 
-asciinema project was started by [Marcin Kulik](https://hachyderm.io/@ku1ik) in
-2011.
+The asciinema project was started by [Marcin Kulik](https://hachyderm.io/@ku1ik)
+in 2011.
 
-While Marcin was playing with the idea of sharing terminal session recordings on
-the web since 2010, the working prototype of what eventually became asciinema
-came to life a bit later.
+While Marcin had been playing with the idea of sharing terminal session
+recordings on the web since 2010, the working prototype of what eventually
+became asciinema came to life a bit later.
 
-Initially, all components of asciinema - the recorder (aka CLI), the player, the
-server - were developed as parts of a single [Ruby on
-Rails](https://rubyonrails.org/) codebase. The recorder was a simple, single
-file Python program. The player was a single JavaScript file, with an ad-hoc,
-incomplete parser for ANSI escape sequences, using jQuery for juggling the lines
-of a fake terminal view in a web browser. It was rough but worked well enough to
-deserve continued development.
+Initially, all components of asciinema - the recorder (aka CLI), the player, and
+the server - were developed as parts of a single [Ruby on
+Rails](https://rubyonrails.org/) codebase. The recorder was a simple,
+single-file Python program. The player was a single JavaScript file with an
+ad-hoc, incomplete parser for ANSI escape sequences, using jQuery to juggle the
+lines of a fake terminal view in a web browser. It was rough but worked well
+enough to deserve continued development.
 
-The project was initially named "ascii.io". In March 2012 ascii.io site was
-launched, providing free hosting for terminal session recordings made with
-`asciiio` script (tripple "i", omg!). The project was renamed to "asciinema" in
+The project was initially named "ascii.io". In March 2012, the ascii.io site was
+launched, providing free hosting for terminal session recordings made with the
+`asciiio` script (triple "i", omg!). The project was renamed to "asciinema" in
 September 2013 and published as a Python package to PyPI around the same time.
 
-In late 2014 the recorder was rewritten in Go, preserving the functionality of
+In late 2014, the recorder was rewritten in Go, preserving the functionality of
 the previous versions while improving in some areas. The first release of the
 new codebase was 0.9.9, published in December 2014.
 
-The same year version 1.0 of the player came out, quickly followed by version
-1.0 of the recorder, which came out in March 2015. Those releases stabilized the
-first version of asciinema's recording file format, [asciicast
+The same year, version 1.0 of the player came out, quickly followed by version
+1.0 of the recorder, which was released in March 2015. These releases stabilized
+the first version of asciinema's recording file format, [asciicast
 v1](../manual/asciicast/v1/).
 
 Version 1.2 of the recorder was the final version implemented in Go. For
 [several
-reasons](https://blog.asciinema.org/post/and-now-for-something-completely-different/)
+reasons](https://blog.asciinema.org/post/and-now-for-something-completely-different/),
 it was reverted to the previous Python implementation. The new-old recorder was
 released in July 2016 as version 1.3, with all new features backported from the
 Go codebase.
 
-The lack of proper ANSI parser in the early versions of the asciinema player was
-an obstacle for timely bugfixes and more comprehensive terminal emulation,
-therefore in 2015 the work started to implement new version of the player with
-proper ANSI-compatible terminal parser embedded. The result was asciinema player
-2.0, rewritten from scratch in ClojureScript, and released in January 2016.
+The lack of a proper ANSI parser in the early versions of the asciinema player
+was an obstacle to timely bug fixes and more comprehensive terminal emulation.
+Therefore, in 2015, work started on implementing a new version of the player
+with a proper ANSI-compatible terminal parser embedded. The result was asciinema
+player 2.0, rewritten from scratch in ClojureScript, and released in January
+2016.
 
-Around 2017 asciinema server was made way more self-hosting friendly, with
-updated installation docs and simplified setup in containerized environments.
+Around 2017, the asciinema server was made more self-hosting-friendly, with
+updated installation docs and a simplified setup in containerized environments.
 
-February 2018 marked the release of asciinema recorder 2.0, which introduced
+February 2018 marked the release of asciinema recorder 2.0, which introduced an
 improved recording file format, [asciicast v2](../manual/asciicast/v2/), among
 many new features.
 
 Another milestone was achieved in May 2022 with the release of asciinema player
-3.0, in which the terminal emulation part was implemented in Rust (as
-[avt](https://github.com/asciinema/avt) library), and compiled to WebAssembly,
-resulting in [4x smaller, 50x
+3.0, in which the terminal emulation part was implemented in Rust (as the
+[avt](https://github.com/asciinema/avt) library) and compiled to WebAssembly,
+resulting in a [4x smaller, 50x
 faster](https://blog.asciinema.org/post/smaller-faster/) player.
 
 Outside of asciinema's core components, a new, ultra-fast asciinema GIF
-generator, [agg](../manual/agg/), was released in August 2022.  Creation of agg
-was, to a degree, sparked by avt. In fact, avt has also been integrated into
-asciinema server, where it's used for thumbnail generation and recording
+generator, [agg](../manual/agg/), was released in August 2022. The creation of
+agg was, to a degree, sparked by avt. In fact, avt has also been integrated into
+the asciinema server, where it's used for thumbnail generation and recording
 analysis since 2020.
 
-The latest version of asciinema recorder, 2.4, was released in October 2023.
+The latest version of the asciinema recorder, 2.4, was released in October 2023.