@elrainia@lemmy.world describes working on internet infrastructure back in the 1990s. This was on one of those “drive by” AskLemmys where a new user posts a juicy question, then after a couple hours they delete the topic and their account. However, those posts and comments are still visible in Piefed, ex: https://piefed.social/post/1733969#comment_9969293

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Great story but the first “MMO” was MUD, or Multi User Dungeon, created in 1978. Shades was inspired by MUD.

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Just to extend your comment a little, I don’t think most people that know what MUDs were are aware there was a singular game that they were named after. The game MUD spawned a genre, called “MUDs” obviously, just like Rogue did, which lead to “roguelikes”.

      • Sergio@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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        29 days ago

        SCENE: early 90s. I’m at a computer, desperately grinding on an LPMud. I have a packed suitcase at my feet because I have to catch a flight but I’m SO CLOSE to maxing out my main character and reaching the top “wizard” level. Grind, grind, grind, grind, finally I reach it! With fifteen minutes to go til the very last minute I can make the plane! I spend like 10 minutes walking around the MUD being the top level and chatting with people, then finally I run off and just barely catch the flight. I relax for a couple weeks. No computer access because it’s the early 90s. I finally get back home and sign on to the MUD but… it’s gone! WTF?! I ask around and it turns out the MUD got shut down bc the admin was running it off his work computer and his work finally caught on to all this weird network traffic! FML now I gotta do all that grinding again!

        Actually the admin was cool, they were setting up a new MUD and said they’d start me out at wizard level, but I was like nah I already spent too much time on this, lel. And I never played MUDs again.

        @JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social @Elrainia@lemmy.world @dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
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          29 days ago

          Fun story and commentary on gaming addiction!

          I don’t recall playing MUD’s in particular, but in the early aughts (the 2000’s), I got seriously addicted to “Armagetron” (3D version of the grid-cycle game from the original TRON movie), and then “Gunbound,” which was like a super-deluxe version of the old “Scorched Earth” artillery game. I’m kind of a late-bloomer in life, and those were sort of like a beer-filled, addictive multiplayer game that I otherwise would have been playing in college, more or less. So, good to get those out of my system, I guess.

          • Sergio@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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            29 days ago

            uh… I dunno about “addiction”… but I used to play Civilization pretty much nonstop…

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Been there, been part of it, too. Oh those times, before the invention of email SPAM. Later, the days of an open web without ads.

    • Sergio@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Yeah. Isn’t it funny how we thought the Internet would magically make the world a better place? Maybe it was just me.