Er, no. Crowther and Woods wrote ADVENT, aka Adventure, aka Colossal Cave, which was not a MUD. It was an adventure game (indeed, it gave its name the the genre) but it wasn’t a world that was either shared, persistent or real-time – all of which are qualities required of a MUD. Its textual interface was used by MUDs, though.

>back when Internet connections weren’t even at 56K.

Never mind Internet connections: when we first wrote MUD, some of the players were using 110 baud teletypes. I can type faster than 110 baud – it’s that slow. Yet the people who played back then would still recognise one of today’s MMOs as being basically the same thing. It’s the fun that counts, not the technology.

Richard

It is also moments like these that keep me from playing single player scripted games. I never even touched the single player portion of CoD4:MW.