MUDs Nostalgia

Commenters reminisce about classic text-based multiplayer games called MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons), share memories, links to active MUDs, and compare them to modern MMOs or the article's subject.

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carapace Apr 14, 2020 View on HN

They want a MUD?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

mux23 May 18, 2015 View on HN

get addicted to MUDs. worked for me.

LeoTinnitus Apr 12, 2020 View on HN

How is this different than a MUD?

mderazon Oct 25, 2017 View on HN

Does anyone remember the MUD [1] days ?It was a terminal text based D&D where you could connect to a server and create a character and play with other people. Every mud service was a completely different world you could explore and had different characters. You would team up with people and go slay monsters to gain experience and level up or just hang out and do stupid stuff.You could use a dedicated mud clients like zMud [2] that added some nice key mapping for going north/south

saalweachter Sep 15, 2014 View on HN

The old internet is still there, you just stopped visiting.Here, have a random MUD: http://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/mud_random.cgi

logfromblammo Sep 17, 2018 View on HN

We used to call them MUDs.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUDSome are even still alive.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MUDs

mikkom Jun 22, 2020 View on HN

Yes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DikuMUD

tvon Mar 18, 2009 View on HN

Kind of makes me want to play a MUD

Dracophoenix Feb 14, 2022 View on HN

Wouldn't that qualify as a MUD more than an MMO?

brlewis Feb 13, 2024 View on HN

Doesn't have to be MUD. Thanks!