4 ms·
"(very likely 1980 or 1981) about an MMO" There was no such thing at the time. There were MU* games around but MMO as a genre was viewed as something greater t
by jghn 11y ago
"(very likely 1980 or 1981) about an MMO"
There was no such thing at the time. There were MU* games around but MMO as a genre was viewed as something greater than that. Games like M59 and UO were where that differentiation really started being made.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> There was no such thing at the time. The fact that they didn't exist doesn't mean people couldn't write short stories (or other fiction) about them. Fictional accounts often precede reality.
- dsp1234 11y agoIn 1980-81, there wasn't even MU* games around. The original MUD1 was "released" in 1980, if you were on the arpanet at the time. The first commercial MUD didn't come around until 1983 with Scepter of Goth[0]. So it's likely that the story was fiction (or the timeframe is off) [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scepter_of_Goth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scepter_of_Goth
- dragonwriter 11y ago> So it's likely that the story was fiction The phrase "short story" that was used to describe it is a term for a particular form of fiction writing, so that was obvious from the outset.