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I've played a LambdaMOO based MUD off and on for about 10 years now. Players would inevitably quit or transition to working on the game core, such an awesome co

• cmrdporcupine 6y ago
  I was young but it was heady days back then in the early 90s playing with that stuff. The most disappointing thing for me at the time was how the Internet went the direction of the web browser / HTTP instead of the direction we were trying to go with stuff like LambdaMOO. The web in those days was all about a non-persistent connection and a fairly non-interactive experience. It wasn't until the mid-2000s that "web 2.0" took off and the web got some of the interactivity and dynamic programmability we had in mind with what we were playing with in the early 90s -- but it got it in this awful bolted-on way. That idea of a massive shared authoring environment, I still think that's the future of computing. But for me it isn't about the 3d VR-ish immersion stuff, I actually fear the isolating box that that puts people in. Which is why I haven't played with Roblox or let my kids use it either. I don't want them in another world. I want these kinds of tools to enrich the world we already have, instead.