On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 13:09 -0600, WoodsPam wrote: > > Is there any player still playing that was a player when the game > > first started, or has the entire roster of players changed (perhaps > > several times)? > > Nobody's been a player continuously for the whole game. > > You do get players from the past turning up from time to time, though. > (I know G. was around quite a long time ago, although I'm not sure if he > was there right at the start or not. There may be others.)
Murphy is clearly the "most continuous", continuous registration from 1996 to 2007, and only briefly gone in 2007. I was part of Nomic World MUD/MOO from its very start in 1992, while at University (it was announced in rec.games.board IIRC). I graduated and went off backpacking before grad school over a year before it was really possible to stay online while doing so (incidentally, met up with Steve and bummed around Turkey with him for a bit). While I was gone, Nomic World died and Agora started. So I missed "the start" unless Nomic World counts. When I got back to grad school in 94, I'd left things like email addresses etc. back with my old university account[*], so after a cursory check (this was After the Web, but Before Search Engines) that the nomic world links were dead, forgot all about it - didn't know it had moved to a list. Reconnected after a link appeared in a random comment in a thread on gaming on Slashdot in early 2001. This actually led to a Great Registration Boom, including the return of Evantine and his nemesis (dum-dum-DUUUM) Lindrum, both of whom played for a bit. Also was the genesis of the UNDEAD, And my registration led to the earliest "X is/is not a player" CFJ in the (admittedly incomplete) CotC database. But anyway, I missed all of 1993-2000. There were a lot of "original" players still playing in 2001. Interestingly, there seemed to be a big discontinuity around 2002-2003. During this time, a lot of "from the beginning players" (Chuck, Michael,Steve, Blob) left. No particular single reason, just drifted away, so I think Murphy and I are the only ones left even from 2001 era. [*] I actually had a backup on a 10" reel-to-reel tape. For a VAX. I later lost the tape. -G.
