My nifty explanation on this glitch's origin:

David Wonn's glitch site is now down... it hasn't been on the net for a little while and this valuable source of cool, fun glitches may be gone forever. He hadn't been updating for a while, but now that it's gone, people can't access the glitches anymore.

So, the Center of Glitch Studies is going to try to help out. Our goal is to have as many glitches as possible on our site with useful screenshots and accurate information. There were many glitches we have known of but were not sure of if we should put them up because they had been posted elsewhere. However, we want people to still know about David Wonn's glitches, so we're going to try to put them up. We have not copied anything from David Wonn's site... Connie and I (Wilma) only remember the end results of each glitch: we're having to work through and rediscover most of the glitches. So, we have the details, variations, and screenshots that David Wonn didn't.

So, the people who first recorded this glitch on paper were the people who put it up on David Wonn's site. But, Connie and I were the ones who worked through it and got all the information on this site. So, that's why we have this long note.