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12708: RE: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline

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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@origin.ea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:31:25 -0600
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel James [mailto:dan@sensei.co.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 5:09 PM
> To: mud-dev@kanga.nu
> Subject: FW: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline
> 
> Blatant plug (though I am no longer associated with its
> operation); in 1994 Avalon went onto the Internet (after
> operating since 1990 with modems and 'host-play' terminals
> in the UK). This is noteworthy, aside from any innovations
> in Avalon's gameplay, because I think we were the first 
> commercial MUD on the Internet. We certainly got flamed 
> as if we were. 

Looks like Valhalla, an LPMud, beat you to that distinction in 1992. :)
(Source: Lauren Burka)

-Raph

PS, timeline is updating on my website as we speak, with stuff from the
mud-dev feedback as well as other sources including direct from Kesmai
folks, from VaultNetwork, etc.

 



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