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Multi-user dungeon

You connect with other people to a persistent world made only of text: you read room descriptions, type commands to move, fight or chat, and level up your character alongside other players or against them.

Also known as: MUD, multi-user dimension, multi-user domain

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1978
    Origin

    Roy Trubshaw started MUD (later called MUD1) at the University of Essex; Richard Bartle took over development in 1980. Some sources date its start to 1977.

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  2. 1980

    When the University of Essex connects its network to ARPANET, MUD becomes the first online multiplayer role-playing game on the internet.

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  3. 1990

    DikuMUD sets off a wave of combat MUDs built on its code and shapes early MMORPGs such as EverQuest.

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