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Rolling Out the Internet in the 90s [Best Of] (media.piefed.social)
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@elrainia@lemmy.world describes working on internet infrastructure back in the 1990s. This was on one of those "drive by" AskLemmys where a new user posts a juicy question, then after a couple hours they delete the topic and their account. However, those posts and comments are still visible in Piefed, ex: https://piefed.social/post/1733969#comment_9969293

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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

Shade couldn’t support anywhere near that many, but the poster refers to it as “(first mmo?)” which is why I commented.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    So if I understand correctly, Shades was inspired by MUD1, but not actually an MMO by definition, i.e. "Massively Multiplayer Online."

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    It was definitely not a MMO! It was a bit of a joke comment (British humour - sorry). I’d be amazed if it had anything more than 100 consecutive players (that’s a complete guess).

    I had no idea of it’s MUD heritage then and it’s only today that the comments above have really made me join those dots up.

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