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This is very normal in the open source world: Half of the desktop software included in a modern Linux distro I was using in the late 90s!

From memory: VLC, GIMP, Blender, Audacity, Firefox, Gedit, OpenOffice, XBMC (now Kodi), FileZilla - the list is HUGE

Emacs is from the 80s. (vi probably older, but it might be considered more different from a modern vim.)

From the wiki:

"The first operational EMACS system existed in late 1976."[0]

Wikipedia says that vi was first released in 1976.

Vim is not Vi. It's a project that initially emulated its behaviour and then extended it. So I would say that Vim is from 1991.

Vim was a fork of the Amiga port of Stevie which was first released in 1987.