On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Owen Jacobson wrote: > On Nov 10, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, Aris Merchant wrote: > >> As a member of the aforementioned younger generation (You're not going > >> to get any more that that the difference is significant), I agree > >> about the obsolescence of IRC. I'm anomalous among my generation in > >> that I still use email as my main mode of communication. Most of them > >> use text or instant messaging. I'm definitely in favor of this > >> Discord/Slack idea. > > > > What we *really* should try is a MUD or MOO. > > Wait, someone other than me remembers MOOs? Christ alive. I’ve even got a > running LambdaMOO > instance running, somewhere, as part of an experiment in writing an HTML5 > front-end so that > the whole idea doesn’t disappear into the mists of history. > > We should compare notes.
Heh, it was kind of a joke, because Agora began out of Nomic World, which was a MUD, see Rule 1727. That said, someone set up a (maybe Lambda)MOO for Agorans to use several years ago, but we mostly spent the time building Agora-themed stuff and chatting and looking at each others' stuff, never made any rules attaching the two (though I think it was a discussion forum). Never actually ran one myself, but I always liked them :).
