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Re:Stanford University acquires source code for Multi-User D... by pigscantfly on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @10:08PM (#7677804)
The article says the source was "donated." Furthermore, the "first ever online virtual world" bit comes from the Gamasutra title, not any Stanford affiliated source. It doesn't seem like they've fallen for anything - rather, Bartle and Trubshaw have just given them permission to publish the source online since their research papers were also donated to the library recently. I'm not sure why this offends you so much.
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Re:Stanford University acquires source code for Multi-User D... by brianstorms on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @10:44PM (#7677932)
There are tons of media articles, conferences, books, and other mentions of MUD1 and Bartle, including prominent newspapers, magazines, etc. The MUD1 story is all over the place.

As for your comment "not any Stanford affiliated source" -- if you read the Gamasutra story carefully it has a prominent link to a Standford website page (on game history!) talking about, in its first sentence even,"the first online virtual world, MUD1."

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