This is how I got started, from a DikuMUD. I had met a couple of other people on Medievia and we decided to give it a go. I knew a tiny bit of C from an old pir

This is how I got started, from a DikuMUD. I had met a couple of other people on Medievia and we decided to give it a go. I knew a tiny bit of C from an old pirated copy of Borland TurboC and just jumped right in. Great stuff -- I remember my proudest moments were adding color to the various system messages (vanilla Diku at the time didn't do that), and adding online level editing with saving; previously you had to create maps offline. Never contributed upstream (I was in high school and didn't even understand what that would mean), and eventually kind of drifted away from the community. But I got a ton of experience in just jumping in and working in C.