An Ancient TinyMud
@ zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place : Here's my version of this story. This was long ago and my memories are hazy: apologies when I have the facts wrong… Sometime in the mid-1980s I was at my small college and TinyMud was a new thing: a MUD that allowed in-game content creation. I grabbed a copy of the C code from some FTP site and fixed a bunch of bugs and enhanced it a bit. I added some administrative function and fired it up on our UNIX VAX and told the folks who inhabited our Terminal Room about it. The new TinyMud exploded. Within a couple of days everybody on campus who used computers was creating content in-game. Vast neighborhoods sprang up. One of my friends wrote a bot — MacHinery, who played bagpipes in the Scottish Highlands. A huge graphical map was rendered on the Terminal Room whiteboards. It was a roaring success. Within a few weeks our TinyMud was a ghost town. You could wander the abandoned creations for hours. MacHinery still played in The Scottish Highlands, ...