Happy Birthday to the MUD and MMO. Today marks 30 years since the first MUD was put online.
Massively has an article up detailing that fateful day that the switch was thrown on the first MUD:
Today the MUD and the MMO turn 30
“Today marks the 30th birthday of the original MUD, created at Essex University by Roy Trubshaw in 1978. We recommend you check out what Richard Bartle — who worked on later iterations of the project — has to say about this event, as well as Raph Koster’s words on the subject. The question at hand, as presented by Bartle, seems to be: does this matter?”
