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MUD history dissolving into the waters of time (flag)
www.massively.com — While many modern MMO users may never have looked at a screen of white text on a black background and typed "go north," multi-user dungeons, or MUDs, were the forerunners to modern graphical MMOs. Without their appeal and gameplay concepts, we wouldn't be playing World of Warcraft or even ...

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Slow News Is Good News
gamebunny — ... Massively is reporting on the struggles of documenting MUD (”Multi User Dungeons”, aka MMO precursors) history. Apparently, Wikipedia doesn’t believe these games existed. ...

The End of MUD History?
The Ancient Gaming Noob — ... The angst of the week seems to be about Wikipedia chopping articles about MUDs because they lack verifiable sources. For good or bad, Wikipedia is the animal it is, and its rules can be enforced rather selectively.  Somebody seems to have it in for MUD history and they have the rules to back them up. If it wasn’t lack of sources, it would be the “not notable” angle or something else.  Go listen to Jason Scott or look up Wikilawyering (and all the “See Also” items listed on that page) to get a feel for what ...

Threshold RPG and Wikipedia
The Ancient Gaming Noob — ... Muckbeast has posted a writeup about the trials and tribulations of trying to create and keep alive an entry about the MUD Threshold RPG on Wikipedia, the event that set off much of the brouhaha about keeping MUD history alive that even I posted about the other day. A tale of politics, ambition, spite, and retaliation, it stands as another example of the “game of Wikipeidia” vs. “the ideal of Wikipedia.” Posted in entertainment, MUDs   Tagged: Threshold RPG, ...

A MUD History Wiki
The Ancient Gaming Noob — ... After the Wikipedia purge of entries on MUDs and MUD History there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But then, after the initial shock wore off, people picked themselves up and start in on the business at hand, the preservation of all that MUD history and lore. And so the MUD Wiki was born over on Wikia. Yes, this is not actually breaking news.  There was a comment on one of my posts on the subject almost two weeks back announcing the creation of the Wiki.  I held off on doing a post on the subject because, frankly, ...

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tagn.wordpress.com 1/7/2009 — The angst of the week seems to be about Wikipedia chopping articles about MUDs because they lack verifiable sources. For good or bad, Wikipedia is the animal it is, and its rules can be enforced rather selectively. Somebody seems to have it in ...
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Losing MUD history
www.raphkoster.com 1/5/2009 — QBlog writes on the controversy going on over the possible deletion of the article on Threshold MUD . I’ve run into the fact that Wikipedia isn’t a great resource for research into the history of virtual worlds many times before; the ...
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Wikipedia's War on Gaming History and Threshold RPG
www.brighthub.com 1/11/2009 — Wikipedia is currently dominated by a powerful deletionist movement. MUDs and Gaming History are frequent targets, and Threshold RPG recently found itself in the Wikipedian crosshairs. Wikipedia has lost its way, and obscure, interesting content is ...
Wikipedia is currently dominated by a powerful deletionist movement. MUDs and Gaming History are frequent targets, and Threshold RPG recently found itself in the Wikipedian crosshairs. Wikipedia has lost its way, and obscure, interesting content is ...
Saving mud history
www.raphkoster.com 1/23/2009 — After the whole Threshold deal with Wikipedia and losing mud history , a new Wiki was created on Wikia in order to preserve mud history . I’ve put up a detailed LegendMUD entry with a bunch of citations. Yeah, it’s a conflict of ...
After the whole Threshold deal with Wikipedia and losing mud history , a new Wiki was created on Wikia in order to preserve mud history . I’ve put up a detailed LegendMUD entry with a bunch of citations. Yeah, it’s a conflict of ...
Wikipedia MUDslinging
tobolds.blogspot.com 1/11/2009 — From Plato to the Matrix people have pondered the question whether reality is absolute, or whether it is just an image in our brains. But whatever philosophy you adhere to, it is undisputed that if different people describe the same reality, you more ...
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Journey Beyond the Threshold!
www.thresholdrpg.com 1/6/2009 — Threshold is a high fantasy, real-time, multi-player, online role playing game. Once you step across the Threshold you will be absorbed by the rich, detailed, highly developed role playing atmosphere that comprises this fantasy realm. You become the ...
Threshold is a high fantasy, real-time, multi-player, online role playing game. Once you step across the Threshold you will be absorbed by the rich, detailed, highly developed role playing atmosphere that comprises this fantasy realm. You become the ...
MUD Wiki
mud.wikia.com 1/13/2009 — Featured article LegendMUD is a Diku -derived MUD created in late 1993 and launched officially on February 14, 1994 [1] [2] . It is themed around history [3] , and early on used the slogan "history the way they thought it was." In older materials, it ...
Featured article LegendMUD is a Diku -derived MUD created in late 1993 and launched officially on February 14, 1994 [1] [2] . It is themed around history [3] , and early on used the slogan "history the way they thought it was." In older materials, it ...
Cloak of Bloodied Waters - Item - World of Warcraft
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Please keep the following in mind when posting a comment: Unsure how to post? Check out our handy guide ! You might want to proof-read your comments before posting them. Please post questions on our forums for quicker reply. You are not signed in. ...
Today the MUD and the MMO turn 30
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