https://tomhickerson.com/en/tags/retro/Recent content in retro on Tom Hickerson's SiteHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usCopyright 2023-2026Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2018/2018-10-04-the-case-for-muds-in-modern-times/Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2018/2018-10-04-the-case-for-muds-in-modern-times/“In the age of smart devices and instant entertainment, can a medium as old as MUDs survive?” tags: mud The case for MUDs in modern times Featured image by Zeth - “My own screenshot of GPL software”, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=938185https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2017/2017-09-01-why-mud/Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2017/2017-09-01-why-mud/“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman To the uninitiated, MUD stands for Multi-User Dungeon. Those of us who were born in the 70s and actually had a computer in the house started off early, with Zork, or Colossal Cave, playing on a text screen for hours on end. The next logical step was connecting the computers and going head-to-head; when modems and networked LANs became popular, so did Richard Bartle’s MUD1, or, in my own case, the Scepter of Goth.https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2017/2017-08-31-zarf-updates-your-load-is-too-heavy-zork-deep-reading/Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2017/2017-08-31-zarf-updates-your-load-is-too-heavy-zork-deep-reading/Looking back at the Zork I code, and what accounted for handling inventory back and the day. Interesting and frustrating all at the same time… tags: history Zarf Updates: Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading