[Home] [Groups] - Message: [Prev in Group] [Next in Group]
27622: Re: [MUD-Dev] Programming Languages.
[Full Header] [Plain Text]
From: Roy Trubshaw <Roy@museltd.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:53:14 +0100
References: [1] [2] <-newest
Organization: Kanga.Nu
In message <NGBBJNOEEAKKLCPLEJCBCEAMCPAA.richard@mud.co.uk>, Richard
A. Bartle <richard@mud.co.uk> writes
> His name was Mike Anderiesz, and he's still involved in computer
> games (he interviewed me a last year for "a HUGE feature" in PC
> Zone on online games - I don't know if it was ever published).
I seem to remember reading something ... but it may have been in
Linux Today (or whatever it's called) we made it into Newsweek a few
months ago!
> It may have been his decision to use the "you haven't lived..."
> line as a marketing slogan, but it wasn't his line. I came up with
> that in, hmm, 1979 when Nigel Roberts was creating an account for
> us on MIT's system (I think - it could have been Stanford). The
> account-creation process asked for a line that described the user,
> and we needed something fast because the connection could have
> gone down at any moment. On the spur of the moment, I suggested
> "You haven't lived until you've died in MUD", and that's what
> Nigel typed. It got us some players, as I recall.
Of course I don't remember anything of this ... but that's
difference between genius (not me) and merely talented!
> Proud owner of http://www.youhaventlived.com .
I'll have to have a look!
Toodle pip,
Roy Trubshaw
--
"... the fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by the
superficial design flaws."
Douglas Adams(1952 - 2001): So Long and Thanks For All The Fish.
_______________________________________________
MUD-Dev mailing list
MUD-Dev@kanga.nu
https://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev