Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.

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  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because a MUD that isn't part of a BBS feels wrong to me.

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• fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can you fill me in on what that means? Searching for mud doesn’t give me useful results.

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser.

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  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It means Multi User Dungeon. It's a networked multiplayer game, usually focused on dungeon-crawling as the name suggests. Early ones were based heavily on BD&D and AD&D, but others got more creative.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon

    For a list of still-active MUDs:

    www.mudconnect.com

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