docs: explain that jj was started 3 years before Sapling announcement

Someone at work asked me why I started jj when Sapling already
existed. Let's clarify that I started it before.
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## Introduction
This document attempts to describe how jj is different
from [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Sapling is a VCS developed by Meta. It is a
heavily modified fork of [Mercurial](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/). Because
jj has copied many ideas from Mercurial, there are many similarities between the
two tools, such as:
from [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Sapling is a VCS developed by Meta. It
was announced about 3 years after development started on jj. It is a heavily
modified fork of [Mercurial](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/). Because jj has
copied many ideas from Mercurial, there are many similarities between the two
tools, such as:
* A user-friendly CLI
* A "[revset](revsets.md)" language for selecting revisions