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Happy Birthday to MUD

by Cameron Albert 20. October 2008 18:25

MUD is 30 years old today. For those who don't know what MUD is, it is the forerunner to the virtual worlds and MMORPGs we love and play today.

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10/23/2008 7:42:13 AM #

My wife and I met on a MUD in 1997. MUDs are also why I, umm.., didn't do quite so well in my first college in 1990. I used to stay up all night mudding on VT terminals and the cool multi-window black & white Sun workstations (they were actually free of grad students 3:30 am) and then sleep all day. LP and variants, and later Diku and others. All great stuff.

Nothing like the old bandwidth-starved lag days of mudding.

Oh, and we used to play a Pascal-based game named Monster as well. That was sort-of a MUD for VAX VMS.

Pete

Pete

10/23/2008 3:30:55 PM #

I came into all when Ultima Online was first coming out, before that it was all table top. I discovered MUD and various derivatives shortly thereafter and always enjoyed and still enjoy text based games.