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Thinking about telnet & social media, I do remember that brief moment in time when the majority of my college's students had internet access but the web hadn't

Thinking about telnet & social media, I do remember that brief moment in time when the majority of my college's students had internet access but the web hadn't been invented yet. Telnet (along with talk, finger .plan's, newsgroups) had its moment in the sun. Enough so that I had a professor who would joke with us about getting our papers done before we'd hit telnet. And thinking about MUDs, there is no better / worse way to feel the crush of time than finding your old MUD is still online. I found mine again a few years ago. Couldn't remember my password so made a new char. Used "finger" to look at my main. Last logged in 9000+ days ago. Looked up my friends who I used to spend hours with. Around the same. 9000+ days. Seeing it quantified in days rather than years made it more difficult and more personal. 9,000 days just gone like that.

shmoe 1y ago
RIP TDome ][! A local MajorBBS in my area had multiple nodes and outbound internet.. with no dns for some reason. So we needed to know the ip address of the bbs/mud we wanted to telnet to. Some of the highest quality people I know I met there and still speak to.
reverendsteveii 1y ago
>your old MUD Mine was a weird one, it was actually a top-down paintball game whose "graphics" were just ascii with screen refreshes. It might even be stretching the definition of MUD to call it that but it was a text-only multiplayer game that you accessed via telnet so it just kinda got absorbed into the MUDiverse. A few weeks ago I found out that, after a 20 year hiatus and at least one moderately successful clone, it's been relaunched with a GUI frontend. paintballnet.net, there are even occasionally a few players online but when there aren't there's always bots and a shockingly deep pool of loadouts to choose from.
TacticalCoder 1y ago
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qingcharles 1y ago
Ugh. Mine just went down unexplainably after 29 years of continuous operation without being touched: https://web.archive.org/web/20250128064648/http://resworld.eolith.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250128064648/http://resworld.e... :(

shmoe 1y ago

RIP TDome ][! A local MajorBBS in my area had multiple nodes and outbound internet.. with no dns for some reason. So we needed to know the ip address of the bbs/mud we wanted to telnet to. Some of the highest quality people I know I met there and still speak to.

reverendsteveii 1y ago

>your old MUD Mine was a weird one, it was actually a top-down paintball game whose "graphics" were just ascii with screen refreshes. It might even be stretching the definition of MUD to call it that but it was a text-only multiplayer game that you accessed via telnet so it just kinda got absorbed into the MUDiverse. A few weeks ago I found out that, after a 20 year hiatus and at least one moderately successful clone, it's been relaunched with a GUI frontend. paintballnet.net, there are even occasionally a few players online but when there aren't there's always bots and a shockingly deep pool of loadouts to choose from.

TacticalCoder 1y ago

[dead]

qingcharles 1y ago

Ugh. Mine just went down unexplainably after 29 years of continuous operation without being touched: https://web.archive.org/web/20250128064648/http://resworld.eolith.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250128064648/http://resworld.e... :(