In the early 1990s, there was ZenMOO: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.mud.lp/c/GAFQ8FJIm5A/m/uVYBI9R8MAIJ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.mud.lp/c/G

In the early 1990s, there was ZenMOO: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.mud.lp/c/GAFQ8FJIm5A/m/uVYBI9R8MAIJ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.mud.lp/c/GAFQ8FJIm5A/m... You connect, sit around with all the other players -- and not say anything. The high score was for staying connected and idle the longest. Occasionally, the mud will say something. Resist the urge to reply; it'll lower your score, and if you type too often/much, you get kicked off. Every so often, though, it'll ask you something. If you don't respond within a time limit, you get kicked off. Its website, where you can download a copy of the database under a LambdaMOO server: https://web.archive.org/web/19971011224937/http://www.zennet.com/pub/moo/zenmoo/html/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/19971011224937/http://www.zennet...