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Re:Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use? by quantxx on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:43AM (#39745238)
A younger one here. What's MUD?
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Re:Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use? by bcks on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:47AM (#39745312)
A text-based, multiplayer, real-time virtual world. Sometimes more group-chat, sometimes more adventure story scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon
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Re:Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use? by plussed_reader on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:50AM (#39745348)
MultiUserDomain - a precursor to today's MMO. You could connect to an ascii based adventure/roleplaying game that others could connect as well and communicate. I played astaria.net back in the late 90s.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use? by Ivoah on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:48AM (#39745324)
Multi-user dungeon, basically a text-based MMORPG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon

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Re:Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use? by Arubis on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:48AM (#39745320)
Multi-User Dungeon; Cf. MUCK for multi-user chat kingdom and friends. Essentially a shared text-only set of chat rooms with a theme and some built-in game logic.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use? by proaralyst on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:48AM (#39745328)
Multi User Dungeons were sort of multiplayer roguelikes/interactive fiction. The text-based precursors to MMOs
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