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The article says the source was "donated." Furthermore, the "first ever online virtual world" bit comes from the Gamasutra title, not any Stanford affiliated s
by pigscantfly 12y ago
The article says the source was "donated." Furthermore, the "first ever online virtual world" bit comes from the Gamasutra title, not any Stanford affiliated source. It doesn't seem like they've fallen for anything - rather, Bartle and Trubshaw have just given them permission to publish the source online since their research papers were also donated to the library recently. I'm not sure why this offends you so much.
- brianstorms 12y agoThere are tons of media articles, conferences, books, and other mentions of MUD1 and Bartle, including prominent newspapers, magazines, etc. The MUD1 story is all over the place. As for your comment "not any Stanford affiliated source" -- if you read the Gamasutra story carefully it has a prominent link to a Standford website page (on game history!) talking about, in its first sentence even,"the first online virtual world, MUD1."