MUDs Turn 30 Years Old

Massively points out that today marks the 30th anniversary of the first Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) going live at Essex University in the UK. The game, referred to as MUD1, was created by Roy Trubshaw. Richard Bartle, a man who also worked on the game as a student at Essex, has a post discussing the milestone and talking about how MUDs relate to modern MMOs. What MUDs did you play?

Comments

Aardwolf!

[Lookin4Trouble]

Aardwolf - where the men are MEN, and most of the women are too... http://www.aardmud.org/

30 years old

[Bastard of Subhumani]

30 years old ... and they still haven't got laid.

forests edge

[farker haiku]

http://www.theforestsedge.com/

still good enough to play, i just find that with kids, school and a full time job, i don't have as much time to modify my bots...err play.

Re:What MUDs "did" I play?

[Luyseyal]

D'oh, I thought you said "Tetris" and I was like "Tetris is a MUD?" and tried to imagine a Tetris based MUD.

Weird.
-l

Thirty years...

[hvatum]

Thirty years, and the graphics still suck.

Re:FUD nearly 40 years old, & still being used

[Xcruciate]

They should have a mod: -1 WTF

Re:What MUDs "did" I play?

[ArsonSmith]

There is a shape made up of four squares arranged 3 on one side and one sticking out to the left at the bottom. The next shape after this is four squares arranged in a two by two square.

Which direction do you wish to move the current peice?
(left, right, down)

100hp 56ma 13456exp > d

You have made 2 complete lines. Gained 148 experience.

The pieces are moving faster now.

There is a shape made up of four squares arranged in a two by two square. The next shape after this is four squares arranged with two on the bottom left and two on the top right.

Which direction do you wish to move the current peice?
(left, right, down)

Re:ahhh

[FooAtWFU]

Time wasted? Ha! :) I taught myself object-oriented software engineering playing around on a MOO (MUD, Object Oriented). That's one of the reasons I was able to get myself more than $70k/yr straight out of college.

(disclaimer: it is also very possible to teach yourself software engineering the wrong way using MUDs and MOOs and such. Especially in a learn-by-example environment...)

I have a log of that first MUD session

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

I have a text log of that first MUD session by the two guys who set it up:

# Welcome to MUD1 at Essex University!
#
# Time: 18:57:32
# There are 1 users on currently, including you.
#
# You are in a room with one door on the north wall.
#
> n
# You go north.
> look
# You see one door to the south.
> s
# You go south.
> look
# You are in a room with one door on the north wall.
> search
# What?
> examine
# I don't know how to do that, Dave.
> find
# What?
>
# TimTheEnchanger logged in.
#
# Time: 19:02:12
# There are 2 users on currently, including you.
#
>
*** TimTheEnchanter attacks YOU ***
*** You are hit for 26721 damage! ***
*** You DIE! ***
> n
# You can't do that, you are dead.
> nnnn
# What?
> nn
# I don't know how to do that, Dave.
> nnnnnnnnnnnn
# What?
>
TimTheEnchanter shouts, "hahaha dumbass!"
> q
# I don't know how to do that, Dave.
> quit
# What?
> exit
# Goodbye, and thanks for playing! Come back soon!
# Elapsed time: 0 hours 6 minutes 33 seconds.
^(*@#CONNECTION LOST

And we've never looked back!