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Prior art may go back further than the 1980s. I seem to recall that on some old MUDs, you could be “toaded,” or maybe “frogged,” which would make you look to ot
by pmiller2 7y ago
Prior art may go back further than the 1980s. I seem to recall that on some old MUDs, you could be “toaded,” or maybe “frogged,” which would make you look to others like a toad/frog, and anything you said would display as “ribbit” or something.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD and https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=kt367nc6m1&chunk.id=ch03&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch03&brand=ucpress https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=kt367n...
- Beldin 7y agoFrom Wikipedia: [MUD1] became the first Internet multiplayer online role-playing game in 1980, when the university connected its internal network to ARPANet. Which dates that particular piece of prior art to 1980 or later. [MUD1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
- zaroth 7y agoWow, thanks for the trip down memory lane. I can’t remember if the effected user would know it was happening on their end?
- pmiller2 7y agoI don't either. That's why I hedged with the word 'may'.
- ShinTakuya 7y agoUsually they would know but there was a couple of MUDs that hid it. Of course you found out pretty quickly because everyone would find the hyperactive toad hilarious.
- BryantD 7y agoYeah, you knew you were toaded. (Source: I still remember my original TinyMUD ID number, way back in the day. #17086.)
- crankylinuxuser 7y agoDo you remember a "Mirror" Sionnain? She was made into an object if you investigated her. She was a "mirror".