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:
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>> On Mar 20, 2026, at 2:13 PM, Paul Koning via groups.io <paulkoning=comcast.net@groups.io> wrote:
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>>> On Mar 20, 2026, at 2:00 PM, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt@thereinhardts.org> wrote:
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>>> I'm guessing this perhaps was one of the sources.
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>>> https://mud.fandom.com/wiki/MUD1
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>>>> 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]
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>>> John H. Reinhardt
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>> That source is certainly very wrong about history.
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>> paul
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> 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.
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> A lot more PLATO history can be found in The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear.
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