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doc: revert anachronistic 'node:' prefixed module require()s in API history notes

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge github/fork/DeeDeeG/docs-no-node-prefixed-module-requires-before-v16.0.0 into main

Support for the 'node:' prefixed builtin module namespace was introduced for require() expressions in Node v16.0.0, and backported to v14.18.0. This was never supported in Node v15.x or chronologically older.

All of the current API history notes in the docs using 'node:' prefixed module require()s happen to be documenting changes in Node versions from before the time when support was first introduced.

This commit reverts those require()s in the history notes to be un-prefixed. (They were incorrect as written; The prefixed require()s would not work for those older Node versions.)

This change prevents the API history notes from inaccurately implying 'node:' prefixed builtin modules were introduced many Node versions ago, or were require()-able with the 'node:' prefix in those Node versions.

Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35387 Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37246 Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42752

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