Early Online Gaming (MUDs)

• When I was in University (in the 80s), we played a Multi User Dungeon game (Maze?).
• It ran on the mainframe, and we accessed the mainframre via dumb terminals.
• The picture you saw was done in ASCII characters.
• I remeber you could have a dog that helped you. The big dog was a D and the little dog a d.
• The interaction was good, you moved and it moved without delay.
• All of the agents behaviour was canned, and most of the animals were just chaotic hungry.
• Still, the interaction with people could be interesting. You could talk via text.
• People were distributed around town, but we didn't play people on the other side of the country.
• The ArpaNet wasn't that widely used, though we could email globally.