Before there were massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) like EverQuest, the genre was called a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD), following in the trend of calling text adventures at that ...

Unlike MUD1, which required expensive terminals hidden away in university computer labs, connected to gigantic main-frame computers, EverQuest could be played by almost anyone with a home computer and ...

MUD1, the first online virtual world, was originally released in 1978. Thirty-six years later, Stanford University Libraries has acquired the project's source code and has plans to provide public ...

The MUD1 source code was created in 1978 at the University of Essex by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw, and was an attempt to bring multiple players into the text-based adventures in games like Zork .