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 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 .Xr mandoc_char 7
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+language first appeared as a troff macro package in
+.Bx 4.4 .
+It was later significantly updated by Werner Lemberg and Ruslan Ermilov
+in groff-1.20.1.
+The standalone implementation that is part of the
+.Xr mandoc 1
+utility written by Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in
+.Ox 4.6 .
 .Sh AUTHORS
 The
 .Nm