Was it fascinating? Did it feel like the amazing future? Were you all too aware of the mounting cost relative to what you were actually doing?

  • nocturne
    9·
    27 days ago

    Starting when I was in 7th or 8th grade (late 80s - early 90s) I started playing on MUDs (Multi User Dungeons), a precursor to an MMORPG that was all text based. It was part game, part chat room. It was not until a couple years later that I played regularly. They were not really an online service, but I did use aol as my isp starting in 96, but only to connect to a MUD or EverQuest.

      • nocturne
        4·
        27 days ago

        I remember being at the computer center at the local university and someone came running in freaking out about the World Wide Web and then we had to figure out what a browser was and how to work it.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
      5·
      27 days ago

      I absolutely loved MUDs.

      The one I remember playing, there were six other players all killing the same set of rat spawns. The game would only generate a handful every few minutes, and if you didn’t damage it, you didn’t get any experience. So id sit there waiting for my chance.

      I also remember a Discworld MUD!