Continued work on fooling Emacs into behaving like a drop-down console (i.e. Equake), set me to thinking about the development of Quake-style drop-down terminals. The earliest surviving drop-down terminals on Linux seem to be Yakuake (QT/KDE), Tilda (GTK), and Guake (GTK). But “Yakuake” stands for “yet another Kuake”, and indeed the earliest drop-down terminal I can find on Linux is Kuake, released probably by 2003, with the last update in 2004[4].