mud.wikia.com - 1/13/2009
—
Featured article LegendMUD is a Diku -derived MUD created in late 1993 and launched officially on February 14, 1994 [1] [2] . It is themed around history [3] , and early on used the slogan "history the way they thought it was." In older materials, it is sometimes referenced as just "Legend."It ...
tagn.wordpress.com - 1/7/2009
—
tagn.wordpress.com —
The angst of the week seems to be
about Wikipedia chopping articles about MUDs because they lack
verifiable sources. For good or bad, Wikipedia is the animal it is, and its rules can be enforced rather selectively. Somebody seems to have it in ...
(more)
The End of MUD History?
tobolds.blogspot.com - 1/11/2009
—
tobolds.blogspot.com —
From Plato to the Matrix people have pondered
the question whether reality is absolute, or whether it
is just an image in our brains. But whatever philosophy you adhere to, it is undisputed that if different people describe the same reality, you more ...
(more)
Wikipedia MUDslinging
Comments
Blog Reactions
Saving mud history
Raph's Website —
After the whole Threshold deal with Wikipedia and losing mud history, a new Wiki was created on Wikia in order to preserve mud history.
I’ve put up a detailed LegendMUD entry with a bunch of citations. Yeah, it’s a conflict of interest, and I am sure I am misremembering stuff or letting my bias show. But it’s also the only way some of this history will be preserved.(And wow, I had forgotten a lot of this stuff!)
Go there, and jump in, and help. And hey, if people do the hard work of finding sources and the like ...
MUD history gets a wiki for itself
Massively —
... was published, many readers here offered a suggestion, "Why not go put the history on your own wiki?" Well, that suggestion has recently become a reality with the creation of MUD Wiki. MUD Wiki, a Wikia gaming wiki, will be holding all of the MUD history and information that Wikipedia has been slowly... MUD history gets a wiki for itself originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | ...
A MUD History Wiki
The Ancient Gaming Noob —
... After the Wikipedia purge of entries on MUDs and MUD History there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
But then, after the initial shock wore off, people picked themselves up and start in on the business at hand, the preservation of all that MUD history and lore.
And so the MUD Wiki was born over on Wikia.
Yes, this is not actually breaking news. There was a comment on one of my posts on the subject almost two weeks back announcing the creation of the Wiki. I held off on doing a post on the subject because, frankly, ...
Related Content
Losing MUD history
raphkoster.com 1/5/2009 — QBlog writes on the controversy going on over the possible deletion of the article on Threshold MUD . I’ve run into the fact that Wikipedia isn’t a great resource for research into the history of virtual worlds many times before; the ...
Small world vs Big world
killtenrats.com 4/19/2009 — In MMORPGS we always want things bigger. We want bigger worlds, bigger cities, and of course we want a bigger server population. We reason that if there’s several thousand players on a server, there’s sure to be people online in every ...
Hauling Bronze Through Forgotten Realms
tagn.wordpress.com 9/14/2009 — “Can you summon?”
That was the question that started me off on one of the… erm… rule bending ventures that I alluded to in my post about the results of the poll on what is cheating. It was probably 14 years ago when it happened, back on SojournMUD, long enough that I ...
“Worst. Presentation. Ever.”
brokentoys.org 5/1/2009 — Richard Bartle recently posted the presentation slides from his IMGDC keynote .
Note: bad presenters slam their entire presentation script into each Powerpoint slide, then read droningly from each slide, word for word, as if their audience were a ...
Today the MUD and the MMO turn 30
massively.com 10/24/2008 —
Today marks the 30th birthday of the original MUD, created at Essex University by Roy Trubshaw in 1978. We recommend you check out what Richard Bartle -- who worked on later iterations of the project -- has to say about this event, as well as Raph ...
Saving mud history
raphkoster.com 1/23/2009 — After the whole Threshold deal with Wikipedia and losing mud history , a new Wiki was created on Wikia in order to preserve mud history .
I’ve put up a detailed LegendMUD entry with a bunch of citations. Yeah, it’s a conflict of ...
Happy Birthday, MUD
raphkoster.com 10/24/2008 — Today is the official 30th birthday of MUD . And MUDs are, for better or worse, the crucible in which today’s virtual worlds were born. There were people who played MUDs working on The Realm , on Meridian 59 , on Kingdom of the Winds , on ...
What is missing in our games?
psychochild.org 10/12/2009 — Sometimes I wonder if MMOs have really lived up to their potential. From my first steps playing a text MUD and realizing that some of those other characters were controlled by people like me, these games captured my imagination. The fun diversion ...
Lost in the Faerie Forest
tagn.wordpress.com 28 days ago — Leuthilspar Tales – Part IV
As an elf starting out in the early days of TorilMUD you were stuck on an island for 20 levels. An island with a home town and three zones, Kobold Village, the Faerie Forest, and the Elemental Glades.
Kobold Village, once you got in, was the preferred ...
Wikicrap
brokentoys.org 1/6/2009 — Wikipedia is a perfect example of the tragedy of the commons : where multiple individuals acting independently in their own self-interest can ultimately destroy a shared resource even where it is clear that it is not in anyone’s long term ...
Follow MassiveBlips on Twitter
