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Source Code for World's First MUD Recovered

posted by n1 on Saturday May 03 2014, @12:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the found-in-a-misty-graveyard dept.

Teckla writes:

El Reg reports:

The source code for MUD1, a multi-user dungeon created at the University of Essex in 1978, and generally held to have been the world's first online multi-player game, has been recovered.

The code has landed at Stanford University, which says it has secured permission to redistribute the game's blueprints from the authors Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Saturday May 03 2014, @03:21AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 03 2014, @03:21AM (#39149)
    Because if he's the only one that played it it's not a MUD...?
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  • (Score: 1) by hopp on Saturday May 03 2014, @03:27AM

    by hopp (2833) on Saturday May 03 2014, @03:27AM (#39150)

    What if he had Dissociative Identity Disorder?