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<LI><em>From</em>: Daniel James <<A HREF="mailto:dan#sensei,co.uk">dan#sensei,co.uk</A>></LI>
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Raph, a few things for the timeline;
Raph Koster writes:
> 1987
> * MUD2 is launched as British Legends on Compuserve.
I am by no means sure, but I was always under the impression
that British Legends was consistently MUD1. MUD2 certainly
launched in the UK as a stand-alone dialup service operated
by British Telecom. I can't recall the year. Richard?
Blatant plug (though I am no longer associated with its
operation); in 1994 Avalon went onto the Internet (after
operating since 1990 with modems and 'host-play' terminals
in the UK). This is noteworthy, aside from any innovations
in Avalon's gameplay, because I think we were the first
commercial MUD on the Internet. We certainly got flamed
as if we were.
(1993)
>* Electric Communities is founded by Farmer and Morningstar.
> Their product is The Palace.
EC's product was not The Palace - that was developed by a
division of Time Warner and later - 1998, I think - acquired
by EC, who are now communities.com
EC's product (aside from contracting on Worldsaway) was a
major revision of Habitats, called both Habitats and Microcosm.
It had a number of very interesting properties, notably a secure
distributed architecture. It was mothballed during The Palace /
Onlive! acquisition, though I believe they are continuing to
work on the technology and some of it (www.erights.org) is open
source.
>* Worlds Inc founded in Seattle, launches WorldsChat.
Seattle? Could be. I know they were based in San Francisco, later.
(1998?)
> * Asheron's Call opens.
This was in 1999.
(1999)
>* Lyra's Underlight launches doing a roleplay-enforced graphical
game.
I think this was 1998 - maybe even 1997 for the beta. They launched
via mPlayer but have recently gone back to being independent.
Good call putting this together.
Daniel
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00537" HREF="msg00537.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sat 04 Mar 2000, 06:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00552" HREF="msg00552.html">Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Travis Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Sun 05 Mar 2000, 00:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00555" HREF="msg00555.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
cg <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 05 Mar 2000, 19:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00557" HREF="msg00557.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Daniel A. Koepke <a href="mailto:dkoepke#circlemud,org">dkoepke#circlemud,org</a>, Mon 06 Mar 2000, 07:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00558" HREF="msg00558.html">FW: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Daniel James <a href="mailto:dan#sensei,co.uk">dan#sensei,co.uk</a>, Mon 06 Mar 2000, 07:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00560" HREF="msg00560.html">[MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
F. Randall Farmer <a href="mailto:randy#communities,com">randy#communities,com</a>, Mon 06 Mar 2000, 17:59 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00559" HREF="msg00559.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Dr Richard A. Bartle <a href="mailto:richard#mud,co.uk">richard#mud,co.uk</a>, Mon 06 Mar 2000, 08:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00564" HREF="msg00564.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Tue 07 Mar 2000, 02:15 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00565" HREF="msg00565.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
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