Right. The only reason we knew it as a MUD not a MOO is because the
term "MOO" hadn't been coined yet. I stand by my characterization of
MW as running on a MOO based on my understanding of the MUD/MOO
distinction.
On 11/16/19, Kerim Aydin wrote:
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> Yeah, I remember distinctly hearing the word MO
Yeah, I remember distinctly hearing the word MOO for the first time sometime
after NW. We definitely called it a MUD. Only a few people (exclusively
Monash University I think) were granted wizard/programming privileges - that
was one of the difficulties with using that forum for Nomic, it gave
It was 1992 (As You Know, Agora is from 1993), and the meaning of the
words may have shifted, but I don't think people would have called Nomic
World a MOO at the time. I never got a look at its actual source code,
but as I recall the interface resembled more LPMud (the MUD style I was
already
Nomic World started as a MOO in 1994 or thenabouts. Agora began, on its
first mailing list, after the fellow who was maintaining it graduated from
college and didn't want to take that hobby with into The So-Called Real
World. It had discussion rooms and a voting room where players could
register th
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