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tobolds.blogspot.com - 1/11/2009
Wikipedia MUDslinging
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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 often than not end up with different texts. ...
mud.wikia.com - 1/13/2009
MUD Wiki
— mud.wikia.com — 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 ... (more) MUD Wiki

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raphkoster.com - 1/5/2009
Losing MUD history
— raphkoster.com — 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 ... (more) Losing MUD history

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massively.com - 1/7/2009
MUD history dissolving into the waters of time
— massively.com — 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 ... (more) MUD history dissolving into the waters of time

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mendax.org:  Why delete articles from Wikipedia?

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Why delete articles from Wikipedia?
mendax.org — A number of people in the MMOG blogosphere talked about the deletion of MUD articles in Wikipedia this past week, after folks like Richard Bartle and Raph Koster voiced their complaints on their respective soap boxes. We quite agree with the two of them that deleting these kinds of articles, despite arguments about citation, do nothing but deplete the public record of a huge part of online gaming history. Since much of the online source material for these articles vanished due to people’s web sites going down over time, Wikipedia’s record of certain events is arguably the last record outside of what’s currently ...

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