I spent an inordinate amount of time on Lambda in college, thanks to some friends that introduced me to it freshman year. It became the formative experience for

I spent an inordinate amount of time on Lambda in college, thanks to some friends that introduced me to it freshman year. It became the formative experience for a lot of my online time. I still log on there and a couple others, although these days it's really just to talk with one or two people that I don't have another connection to—the population on Lambda is a pale fraction of what it was at the peak in the nineties. Some friends and I do still run our own MOO that we've been running since college on one person's computer or another. Through the years, it's outlasted ICQ, AOL, and every other form of instant-messaging doodad out there. It's simple, straightforward, and requires only an SSH client to connect to it from any device (since I run it on a Unix box, I just SSH to that and resume my session using tmux). Remarkably persistent, and a really nice way to continue talking with my friends every day.