Many years ago, probably around 2005 or so, I got tired of seeing threads on comp.os.linux.advocacy where someone would ask about the Linux equivalent to Windows program X, someone would mention that X works great under emulation with wine, and someone would jump in to say the Wine is not an emulator (and usually also manage to say "Windoze" or "Losedoze", refer to Microsoft as "M$" or "M$FT", and of course tell the first poster that it is "GNU/Linux", not "Linux").

I recalled that the people who actually wrote Wine had certainly called it an emulator, and so was curious why they had stopped. I researched it, wrote it up and probably posted it to to Usenet. Later, in 2009, I went to the "talk" page for the Wikipedia "Wine" article and added a note saying that there was some interesting history behind the interpretation of the project name that might be nice to try to work into the article, and gave the research and references so that if anyone wanted to have a go at it that could provide a starting point.

For the HN post, I just went to that talk page and grabbed my prior research.