raphkoster.com - 1/23/2009
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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 ...
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 ...
The End of MUD History?
tagn.wordpress.com 1/7/2009 — 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 ...
MUD Wiki
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 ...
MUD history dissolving into the waters of time
massively.com 1/7/2009 —
While many modern MMO users may never have looked at a screen of white text on a black background and typed "go north," multi-user dungeons, or MUDs, were the forerunners to modern graphical MMOs. Without their appeal and gameplay concepts, we ...
Wikipedia MUDslinging
tobolds.blogspot.com 1/11/2009 — 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 ...
3.1 and Saving Time
outofmana.blogspot.com 2/25/2009 — Blah blah blah 3.1 , blahblahblah zogm slap in the fase this, facin teh slap that. Let me save you guys some time---there's a lot of info out there right now being discussed, but the majority of it is crap. Leave it to good ol' OOM to do the hard work for you and summarize the important stuff ...
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 ...
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 ...
My MMORPG History
blog.weflyspitfires.com 7/8/2009 — I decided to copy Syp and Hudson and create a page which holds all of my MMORPG history . It’s quite a long list and pretty comprehensive although I can barely remember some of my characters from older games. I’m glad I did it now because I’m sure it will just get harder to ...
Ways to make your virtual space more social
raphkoster.com 1/29/2009 — I’ve said before that socialization requires downtime , by which I mean that people who are busy pressing a bunch of other buttons or busy watching a dozen different colored bars have pretty much given all their attention to it, and therefore ...
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