20 Mar
2026
20 Mar
'26
9:43 p.m.
While I can’t comment on some of these points, what I do know is that when it comes to the
UK, and particularly JANET, these systems were among the first MUDs. Aside from the author
of this article, I knew others who were building systems very early on and a lot of his
points tally.
Anyway, I’m not chasing the who-did-what-first. I just thought these kinds of worthwhile
exercises may be interesting to folks on this list.
-jon.
--
Jon Morgan
"Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon."
On Mar 20, 2026, at 18:24, Johnny Billquist via
groups.io <bqt=softjar.se(a)groups.io> wrote:
But with that said, dnd do not appear to have been a multiplayer game.
And I'm not sure it predates ADVENTURE.
Johnny
On 20/03/2026 19.18, Paul Koning via groups.io wrote:
I can't help them with their errors, but it's amusing to notice that,
while PLATO is not listed as an article, several other articles mention it, including the
one on Dnd -- https://mud.fandom.com/wiki/Dnd -- which credits authors Whisenhunt and
Wood.
A lot more PLATO history can be found in The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear.
paul
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On Mar 20, 2026, at 2:13 PM, Paul Koning via groups.io
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On Mar 20, 2026, at 2:00 PM, John H. Reinhardt
<johnhreinhardt(a)thereinhardts.org> wrote:
I'm guessing this perhaps was one of the sources.
https://mud.fandom.com/wiki/MUD1
> MUD1 (referred to as MUD1, to distinguish from its successor, MUD2) is the oldest
virtual world in existence. It was created in 1978 by Roy Trubshaw at Essex University on
a DEC PDP-10 in the UK, using the MACRO-10assembly language. He named the game Multi-User
Dungeon, in tribute to the Dungeon variant of Zork, which Trubshaw had greatly enjoyed
playing.[1][2] Zork in turn was inspired by an older text-adventure game known as Colossal
Cave Adventure or ADVENT.[3]
John H. Reinhardt
That source is certainly very wrong about history.
paul