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1937. J.R.R. Tolkien publishes The Lord of the Rings. LotR and its intricate fantasy world formed the basis for most early gaming systems.
October, 1963. Thomas Marill, Daniel Edwards, and Wallace Feurzeig publish "DATA-DIAL: Two-Way Communication with Computers from Ordinary Dial Telephones" in Communications of the ACM. (Vol 6, Number 10). The host computer is a DEC PDP-1. This is the first application that allows users to communicate with computers remotely without using special expensive equipment. BBN also registers the patent on the modem on June 17, 1963, and subsequently develops the foundations of modern computer networks.
1975. The Digital Equipment Corp PDP-10 (Programmed Data Processor) becomes the machine of choice of many university teaching and research labs. ADVENT and many other games are subsequently developed on the PDP-10 platform.
1976. Woods releases his newly-revised version of ADVENT at the Stanford AI Lab. ADVENT's host computer is swamped by eager players.
ADVENT /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first implemented on the PDP-10 by Will Crowther as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods. Now better known as Adventure, but the TOPS-10 operating system permitted only six-letter filenames....
This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style now expected in text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!" "I see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different." The `magic words' xyzzy and plugh also derive from this game.
Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually *has* a `Colossal Cave' and a `Bedquilt' as in the game, and the `Y2' that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance.
The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 2.9.12, 10 MAY 1993
Fall, 1978. Bartle and Trubshaw complete the first version of MUD, written in MACRO-10 for a PDP-10.

The D in MUD doesn't mean a dark, dank, clanking dungeon. It means DUNGEON (or, pedantically, DUNGEN), the name of a Fortran version of ZORK that was doing the rounds on DEC PDP-10s when Roy was programming MUD. Having played ADVENT, Roy wanted to try other games along similar lines. We had access via EPSS [Experimental Packet-Switching System] to the ARPAnet (one of only a handful of UK universities to do so, and probably the only one to let students on-line). We found there were two other games available apart from ADVENT, namely HACK and DUNGEN. HACK was weird and basically shallow, whereas DUNGEN/ZORK was very, very good. At this time, there was no generic name for the genre, but Roy wanted to name his game so people would get a sense of what it might be like, and be encouraged to play. Assuming that since DUNGEN was by far and away the best of the 3 games available, we thought the genre would come to be known as "Dungeon games", so he called his program "Multi-User Dungeon". They subsequently became known as "Adventure games" after ADVENT, however, so this didn't really work out as planned! If DUNGEN had gone under its real name of ZORK, we'd maybe all be playing MUZzes now..!
That's Roy's story, anyway. Personally, I think he chose MU because his game was multi-user, and the D because he liked the name MUD. As with all good acronyms, its full meaning was likely constructed afterwards! Richard Bartle, 1995
Bartle later told me by private email that work began on MUD in late 1978, not 1979. The earliest printout he had at the time was 1979, thus his confusion about the date.
1978. DEC introduces its VAX line of computers. The PDP-10 architecture falls out of use. Almost nothing important to MUD history happens on VAXen, but see the entry on Monster and TinyMUD.
1978. This is the copyright date of the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook, author Gary Gygax, publisher TSR Games. The similarity of AD&D mechanics to MUDs might imply that MUDs were created to resemble AD&D without the paperwork. However, numerous discussions with early MUD programmers turned up no one who had played AD&D to any extent (though all of them had read and loved Lord of the Rings). Apparently these people prefered designing their own game systems over playing someone else's. Nevertheless, AD&D-like mechanics and in-jokes are common features of MUDs.
1979. The Zork implementors package the mainframe version of their game for microcomputers and form Infocom to market it and other games. Zork was a huge gamble that paid off: it required a floppy drive. Disk drives were available as options to the Apple and Radio Shack computers common in homes, but considered too expensive just for playing games.
1979. Influenced by Advent, Alan Klietz writes Empire, later known as Scepter, a multi-user variant of Advent. Players could work together, but also engage in combat with each other. Klietz was not familiar with MUD, and his work was independent thereof.
December, 1980. This month's issue of BYTE mentions a multi-player Zork prototype ["Zork and the Future of computerized Fantasy Simulations", by P. David Lebling, pp 172-182]
1980's. Software stores catering to home users become ubiquitous. Top sellers including numerous games from Infocom, and more graphically-oriented game series such as Ultima, Wizardry, Bard's Tale, Might and Magic, and King's Quest introduce a new generation to computerized adventuring. All of these games are single-player, but tend to collect communities of fans who corresponded through magazines and BBS's to share tips and common interest.
1987. After playing a lot of MUD, Alan Cox designs AberMUD.
Circa 1988. John Crane (herafter referred to as "Jopsy"), a student at Northern Arizona University, writes an interactive, user-alterable game called The Playground. Written in Fortran77, PL6, and SPITBOL!, it ran on NAU's Honeywell DPS-6. Originally designed as a 10x10 grid through which players could move, it grows to a then-monstrous 800 objects.
1988. Richard Skrenta of Northwestern University writes Monster in VAX Pascal.

I wrote Monster in about three months, during NU's "winter quarter". I was totally obsessed with coding it. Project obsession was normal with me (really boosts the productivity :-), but "Monster Madness" as I called it then really got out of hand. I was spending all night in the comp center, leaving at 7am, skipping classes, skipping everything. (My 10,000 line VMS Pascal wonder would compile faster when no one was around, which encouraged the nocturnal work). I went on spring break, and when I got back I forced myself to not continue working on Monster. I was afraid I'd fail out of school if I did. I left it alone until November of that year, when I started sending it out on the Bitnet.
Rich Skrenta, 1995
April 1989. Duncan Howard opens UCR's Let's See Yours LPmud at the University of California, Riverside. This date is obviously incorrect since it assumes that an LPMUD is up and running before the best date I have for LPMUD's creation. If you have better information, please send it in.
2001: I have been given the following link, which has some LPmud history, and which may clear up the confusion.
August 19, 1989. Jim Aspnes announces the availability of TinyMUD to a few friends. Its port, 4201, is Aspnes' office number. TinyMUD is written in C for Unix, and was originally conceived as a front-end for IRC. Unlike most previous MUDs, TinyMUD emphasizes world creation over competition. The host, lancelot.avalon.cs.cmu, is a DEC Vaxstation II running BSD Unix. TinyMUD fans celebrate "Brigadoon Day" by resurrecting retired MUD servers on the last weekend of August. The TinyMUD database is in the custody of Fuzzy.
Autumn, 1989. Jopsy begins to re-write The Playground in C. When Aspnes releases TinyMUD, however, Jopsy discards most of his code in favor of a customized version of TinyMUD. The new MUD will be known as DragonMud. The code has been heavily modified since by Jopsy to increase ease of use and player privacy, and to simplify maintenance.
Fall 1989. UCR's Let's See Yours LPmud is renamed to the End of the Line. This date is obviously incorrect since it assumes that an LPMUD is up and running before the best date I have for LPMUD's creation. If you have better information, please send it in.
December 10, 1989 Russ Smith of University of Oklahoma opens TinyHell to the public. Russ will MUD under the name of Nightfall, and, later, Random. His fiance Jennifer Smith is initially known as Chrysalis and later as Moira. TinyHell is bound to port 6250, a common tape density.
December, 1989. DragonMud is installed at Northern Arizona University. (Jopsy states that he'd have paid more attention to the exact date, had he realized that DragonMud would eventually become the oldest continuously running TinyMUD on the net.)
January 1990. Anton Rang releases first version of TinyTalk, a command-line TinyMUD client.
1990. Inspired by AberMUDs, Lars Pensj= decides to write an thesis on object-oriented programming. He chose MUDs as a suitable example. His first production lpmud was called Genesis.
1990. Darker Realms, an lpmud, opens.
Winter, 1990. Stephen White, an undergraduate at the University of Waterloo, releases TinyMUCK 1.0. TinyMUCK is based on TinyMUD, with the additional feature that exits could be opened between players and objects instead of just rooms. Tricks with exits allow players to create Amber-style "Trumps."
February 1990. Marcus J. Ranum throws a for-one-day-only costume ball MUD named TinyBall. TinyBall is a TinyMUD 1.1 running on a DECstation3100. Database starts with 550 objects and ends with 8,000. Two bots, Gaston the waiter and a band, lend atmosphere.
March 11, 1990. A Collective of MUD builders and programmers opens Islandia to the public. Islandia is built from a core database called TinyBase, which is designed with a neater Town Square setting than TinyMUD's. TinyBase is also distributed with several versions of TinyMUD. Garrett (Bryant Durrell) started and managed the project; Rademir (John Abbe), Tourmaline (Jennifer Klieman), Stewy, Buckaroo, Flitterby (Gretchen Shanrock), Random (Russ Smith, russ@math.okstate.edu), Chrysalis (Jennifer Smith), Three, Lynx (Conrad Wong) built and commented and such.
March 15, 1990: TinyTIM goes up for the first time, running vanilla TinyMUD code on a machine at MIT.
March 18, 1990 (Observed). TinyTIM is started on the gnu.ai.mit.edu machine from TinyMUD source code by Sketch and Trout.Complex. The descriptions of the first few rooms are parodies of the TinyHELL topology: Limbo is described as being a room instead of an endless mist, and the Main Area Place/Nexus is described by Trout in intentionally meandering text, urging users to explore even though there were no rooms to explore.
March 1990. Genesis of AtlantisMUCK, by Lachesis (Piaw Na).
March 1990. BloodMUD is created as a parody of Islandia.
April 9, 1990. TinyHell (1) is retired. Russ Smith and his fiancee Jennifer Stone establish TinyHell 2 . More inside jokes.
April 29, 1990 TinyMUD, which had moved to an IBM RT named Daisy, crashes for the last time. Mourning is widespread. TinyMUD players migrate to Islandia, TinyHell 2, DragonMUD, or TinyTim.
April, 1990. A double tinywedding is held on Islandia. The mud runs out of file descriptors, prompting the development of a more robust network layer. Unix processes have a limit (usually 64) on the number of fd's they can open at once. An fd may be a file in the database, or a socket representing a player connection. This practically means that without some hacking, only sixty players could connect at once. A player named Virus (real name unknown) circumvented this restriction by the ingenious method of isolating the network code in a separate program which would spawn a new process every time it ran out of file descriptors. This code, initially unstable, is now so reliable that most TinyMUD-based MUDs use it transparently. (Note: the author thinks this is a cool hack and hopes Virus appears and provides his real name some time.)
May 2, 1990. Stephen White releases the first version of MOO. MOO stands for MUD, Object-Oriented. White admits that the name is somewhat pretentious--class and object creation is object-oriented, but the programming language is not.
May 19, 1990. Russ Smith and Jennifer Stone wed in Oklahoma. They honeymoon in Boston. A gathering is held at the Pizzeria Uno in Porter Square.
May 1990. Druid, Ariela and ChupChups build the Red Countach, the first MUCK vehicle on Atlantis. Random follows suit and builds a working TARDIS. WhiteRabbit builds the first exit traversing vehicle - a VW Rabbit.
May, 1990. Snooze (Gregory Blake) recalls a "TestMUD" for the development of new MUD features, such as allowing players to recycle unwanted objects and save database space. TestMUD eventually mutates into the early versions of TinyMUSH. MUSH didn't stand for anything, but its authors later decided it meant "Multi-User Shared Hallucination."
May, 1990. Telgar Weyr, the Pern-Themed location on TIM, has its first Hatching, where players are paired up in an elaborate ceremony with dragons, and in some cases the player's name is changed (hence the preponderance of players with a ' in their names). The Empedocles, under their first MUD name, are in attendance. Marcia, a veteran of the Internet of several years, hears about the hatching and connects to TIM for the very first time next day.
Spring 1990. Islandia Topology wars? This was a very big deal at the time, but either no one remembers any of the dates or details, or they are too embarassed to admit that they threw fits over some MUD exits once.
June 4, 1990. Our faithful historian graduates from Wesleyan University with a B.A. with Honors in Classics, and moves to Boston. She then spends most of the ensuing economic recession mudding and feeling sorry for herself.
June 1990. Druid and Ariela are tinymarried on Atlantis. Lynx performs the ceremony. Mutant is the best man, Ariana is the maid of honor.
June, 1990. TinyHell 2 is losing "business" to Islandia. Russ Smith and Jennifer Stone retire it and start Chaos, a MUCK. Chaos has a weird topology that isn't congenial to hanging out or building, andit doesn't last long. Fans of Roger Zelazny's Amber books use the new capabilities of MUCK to simulate Amber-like features; eventually some of the same people build a whole MUD to pursue Amber role-playing. Chaos was also the site of the bugging incident, something else that was very important then, but that no one remembers now. Just think, folks: in 100 years, will anyone care?
June, 1990. Wanderer (Greg Scheidel) and Kaine (Peter Tevonian) begin work on Brigadoon, a MUCK. Brigadoon had no connection to Brigadoon Day, as the anniversary hadn't been established. Brig featured an ASCII map that players could invoke to for navigational help.
June 1990. TubMUD, an lpmud, opens. TubMUD is one of the first MUDs located in Germany and primarily populated by German players.
July, 1990. Brigadoon MUCK opens to the public.
August, 1990. Piaw Na shuts down Atlantis.
Late August, 1990: TinyTim is converted to TinyMUSH. TinyTIM is the oldest still-running TinyMUSH.
Fall 1990. First annual TinyAwards held by Kaine. Prizes are awarded to players for interesting building and outrageous roleplaying.
October 19, 1990. Conflicts erupt over control of the original TinyMUD database.
Oct 30, 1990. LambdaMOO, based on Stephen White's MOO, is brought up for very first time, with a tiny core database. Players included Pavel Curtis (Lambda), Gemba, and Gary_Severn. Pavel Curtis is responsible for extensive modifications to the original MOO code (almost none of White's is still extant), as well as securing a permanent home for LambaMOO at Xerox PARC.
October 31, 1990. ChaosMUCK, a Random and Moira production, is retired. Refugees begin mudding on Brigadoon. The Brigadoon wizards, who never expected to see this much traffic, are overwhelmed. hugh builds a floating island.
November 30, 1990. The Islandia database is retired. Mourning is widespread.
November 30, 1990. Random and Moira start Asylum, another MUCK.
November, 1990. FurryMUCK opens to the public. FurryMUCK is the successor to the defunct Crossroads MUCK project, and is populated by people who preferred to role-play anthropomorphic animals in the style of comic books or animation.
Fall, 1990. Jin (Stan Lim) establishes MicroMush on 'manray,' a Sun Workstation at Cal State Fresno. One of the co-founders is Moulton (Barry Kort). MicroMush features a space station named "Cyberion City."
December, 1990. DragonMud. Bedouin, frustrated by comments from several profs that a sense of "community" can't exist on the Internet since there's no "history," asks several dinos for help. dirque, uwiz, Garrett, Randomness, OliverJones and the Dragon tell stories and ramble through subjects including why they started mudding, changes in the community, VR effects of RL suicides, schisms, tinysex, Islandia's topological rules, mystery players and cross-gendering, distinctions between "characters" and "personae," the efficacy (or lack of efficacy) of VR knowledge in RL relationships, and rules for newbies.
January 1991. Orlith, and lpmud, opens at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Jens, Snooze, Forlock, Nightshade, and Saurian all run this MUD until it rips itself apart in May.
January, 1991. Fans of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books begin building PernMUSH.
January, 1991. EvilMUD, a TeenyMUD, brought up on a 386/25 called spike.econ.arizona.edu running AIX 1.1. (EVIL!) originally ran TeenyMUD 1.0, for a few days, but the code was so bad that 1.1 came out soon after. 1.0 and 1.1 were written by "bob" (Andrew Molitor). Xibo and Jason Downs begin work on new versions.
Feb 5 1991 LambdaMOO opens publically with an announcement on rec.games.mud. There are approximately 100 characters from Before The Announcement.
February 1991. EvilMUD moves to an IBM 3090J mainframe running VM/AIX, aqua.ccit.arizona.edu.
Winter, 1991. The Brigadoon wizards get fed up with annoying players and gross misuses of MUCK programming features. Somewhere in there a MUCK program crashes the server, and no one bothers to restart it.
Winter, 1991. The MicroMush founders write a Mission Statement, Charter, and Social Contract for MicroMush, and dedicate it to informal science education.
March, 1991. DragonMUD player Bedouin (Jen Clodius) receives a wizbit. Jopsy and Druid write DragonMUD's Concise Definition of TinySex: TinySex is that act in which one or more players on a mud engage in a ~conversation~ of sorts, where, by using descriptive phrases, their tinybodies seem to engage in an act which mirrors sex in reallife, for the implicitly agreed upon purpose of sexual s(t)imulation or gratification. Druid explains that it is possible to do Calculus homework and have TinySex at the same time, if you type quickly.
March, 1991. DragonMUD experiences a crippling memory shortage. Players voluntarily recycle until the database is reduced by 25% -- after which the database contains all of 748 players, 1630 rooms, and a grand total of 8269 objects.
May 1991. Orlith II, and lpmud, rises from the ashes of Orlith, this time headed by Shadowwolf. Shadowwolf, Whitehawk, and Jens eventually find themselves unable to work together, causing the MUD to divide up into Nightmare and Phoenix.
Spring 1991. Jin travels to Boston to meet Moulton. Both pay a pilgrimage to MIT to meet Prof. Hal Abelson and his daughter Amanda (Aries). Abelson gives them license to use Chezmoto, a large RISC machine. Amanda starts TimeMuse on her father's machine at MIT. Oceana on TimeMuse eventually spins off to OceanaMuse.
Summer 1991. koosh (Nils McCarty) ports MicroMush to Chezmoto. The name is changed to MicroMuse at the suggestion of Wallace Feurzeig of BBN. MicroMuse evolves into the first educational Mud, with emphasis on K12 outreach. Priam_Agrivar (Michael Majere-Wilkinson) leads the development of Space(), a simulation of the Solar System with full Newtonian Gravitational Mechanics.
September, 1991. DragonMUD regulars throw a real-life gathering over Labor Day weekend, in Flagstaff, AZ. Player Legolas hosts. A former wizard, seeking vengence, breaks into another wizard's account, logs into DragonMUD, and recycles a large chunk of the database. The database is rolled back to recover.
Nov 8, 1991. Well-known player (and MUDLine contributor) yduJ gets her character on LambdaMOO.
November 1991. LambdaMOO gets site tracking, blacklist/redlist/etc capability as a mechanism to deal with troublesome players.
December 1991. LambdaMOO. Architecture Review Board formed to assist wizards with workload.
January 26, 1992. Ad-Hoc Virtual Reality Conference on TinyHell. Players discuss ways to make MUDs more "real." Conference noted by the participants adhering to real-life discussion conventions, such as raising hands.
January 1992. Valhalla, an lpmud, becomes self-supporting by charging players money. Though Lars granted Valhalla permission to do so, the controversy arose over whether Lars had that right, given to the number of authors who had contributed to LPMud.
February 1992. TMI, The Mud Institute, opens as a MUD for the development of a new LPMud server and a mudlib to go with it. It also puts forth the goal of teaching LPC. Though this server eventually disassociated with TMI, it did become MudOS. Even though the mudlib was never completed, both TMI-2 and Nightmare use it as a development environment for their mudlibs.
February 1992. DruidMUCK comes online. [With the exception of CaveMUCK, DruidMUCK is the longest running server using Vanilla TinyMUCK2.3. It is also the home of Julia and the Hearts bot. DruidMUCK is considered the backup backup site of "Random and Moira" (Russ and Jennifer Smith) MUDs, (EVIL! being the backup).
March 1992. Players on Phoenix and Nightmare begin rebuilding both lpmuds. Balack slowly starts to take greater control of Phoenix, while Nightmare appears to be languishing in mediocrity.
March, 1992. DragonMUD institutes monthly Town Meetings.
May 1992. With continuing problems, LambdaMOO goes Registration to prevent quota abuses and other antisocial activities.
April 23, 1992. LPC sockets are added to the MudOS driver. This allows TMI-2 to create a rough intermud network based on TCP. This is later replaced by a UDP protocol developed by CD-lib.
May 1992. DragonMUDders hold the first real-life Memorial Day gathering in Flagstaff, AZ, at Legolas'. MemDay gatherings will become a regular event.
July 1992. Descartes takes over the development of Nightmare's mudlib, using MudOS instead of LPMud 2.4.5. Forlock and Flamme join Nightmare to help administrate the MUD.
August 1992. TMI closes down
August 1992. TMI-2 opens its doors to the public. The TMI-2 crew drop TMI's teaching goal due to disk space restrictions.
Fall 1992. Amnesty for the LambdaMOO Seven: Roark, Quinn, Deicide, Wintermute, Gilmore, Tomcat, ZigZag.
October 31, 1992. Nightmare LPMud opens to players. Its mudlib will eventually be released as the Nightmare Mudlib.
October 31, 1992 LambdaMOO veterans begin work on Jay's House MOO. Actually, no one remembers when JHM began; the people who think they do recall conflicting information. The one point of agreement is the location of the first real-life discussions of the project: Perkins in Mankato, Minnesota (Jay says that Perkins is like Denny's, only better. Hope that helps).
December 1, 1992. LambdaMOO Takes A New Direction (wizards withdraw from social affairs).
December, 1992. DragonMUD's Third Anniversary Party and Scavenger Hunt.
January 1993. The Nightmare Mudlib is released, creating the first widely available mudlib for MudOS. The eventual wide availability of multiple mudlibs for MudOS helps propel is popularity.
March 1993. The Discworld Mudlib for MudOS is released, making the second widely available mudlib for MudOS as well as introducing an advanced command parser and user interface.
April 1, 1993. LambdaMOO. Mr. Bungle toaded. Affair published in Village Voice article December 23, 1993.
April 1993. The TMI-2 Mudlib is released, offering a diverse choice of mudlibs for lpmuds running MudOS.
April, 1993. EnsemMUD, a bilingual French/English Diku MUD, is founded at an engineering school in France (Ensem refers to the school).
April 1993. LPC Basics, the first complete textbook of all LPC implementations, is released to the public.
May 1993. LambdaMOO petition system created.
June 1993. Jopsy, the founder of DragonMUD, moves to San Diego. DragonMUD will follow in October, 1993.
June/July 1993. LambdaMOO Arbitration system voted in by players.
August 12, 1993. The first version of the Dworkin Game Driver (DGD) is released. It is the first LPMUD server containing entirely original programming. DGD offers only LPC code parsing and socket handling. No game code is involved.
October 1993. DragonMUD Halloween Party and Costume Ball, in a Haunted House quest built by Eleni and Misha.
November 1993. BeekOS is built by Beek. It incorperated into MudOS dynamic compilation of LPC->C, linking the compiled machine code to the running server dynamically. This is later merged into MudOS proper after Beek takes over MudOS development.
Dec 1993. LambdaMOO Byte quota. Database size drops from 110mb to 80mb.
Feb 1994 LambdaMOO is down for a week due to Xerox security breach.
March, 1994. EVIL! moves to ritz.mordor.com 4201, a 486 running BSDI. In April, 1994 it moves again to mud.mordor.com 4201, a dedicated 486, and then around June 1994 it moved to its current location, intac.com 4201.
April 1994. LambdaMOO Wait list for character creation (ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/MOO/contrib/mail/social....)
June 26, 1994. Beek, Robocoder, and Symmetry take over MudOS development, reviving MUDOS after 9 months of stagnant development during which it is surpassed by almost all other lpmud libraries.
Summer 1994. The National Science Foundation awards BBN a grant to demonstrate Distributed Architecture Muse. Moulton and friends are elated.
December, 1994. DragonMUD's Fifth Anniversary and Siege. London is attacked by Napoleon and his evil warriors; defense of the city is successfully led by The Dragon. Good triumphs over evil, and the realm is saved. Rin and Lorrick get wiz-bits under battle conditions. DragonMUD hits a new record, with 108 concurrent logins during the Siege. Star's (long!) log of the Siege and Shar's return is at http://shrinkatron.utmb.edu/~bedouin/star.html
April 1995. Valhalla, an lpmud, requests monetary donations from players instead of charging for access.
May 15, 1995. The Foundation II LPC Library is released. Foundation II is the first LPC library for MudOS designed for non-game uses, and the first which people may license.
Spring 1995. MuseNet sets up a strategic alliance with WhaleNet at Simmons College and Wheelock College.
June 15, 1995. The Nightmare IV LPC Library is released. Nightmare IV marked a complete rewrite of the Nightmare mudlib, discarding legacy code dating as far back as LPMud 2.4.5.
July 21, 1995. LIMA Mudlib goes into pre-alpha release. LIMA presents sophisticated command parsing based on the old Infocom games (Zork).