> What I find ironic about this is that "less" began as an unbloated "more"....
   
   This is not my recollection at all. I first saw less around '91 or
   '92, and it was at the time a much larger and more featureful
   version of more, by design. The name was a joke (as most names in
   Unix are :-)).


less first appeared in 1984.  check the sources...