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About.com: Multi-User Dungeons - Article featuring background information and resources.
Meta Description: [ Multi-user dungeons (MUDs) bring text-based games to thousands of players from around the world. They are among the most imaginative type of roleplaying games, and you don't need the lastest video card to play. ]
An Atlas of Cyberspaces - MUDs and Virtual Worlds - An atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, WWW and other emerging Cyberspaces.
Meta Description: [ An atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, WWW and other emerging Cyberspaces. ]
500Code begets community - Information about Daniel Pargman's Ph.D. thesis on the social and technical aspects of managing a virtual community, a study of a Swedish MUD. Sample chapters in PDF format.
404DikuMUD Family Tree - Listing of MUD codebases by heirachy for Diku and all code bases.
Meta Description: [ The DikuMUD Family Tree. The DikuMUD
derivatives in a heirarchal tree with links to the code base homepages
and/or the distribution. ]
Journal of Virtual Environments - Academic journal devoted to MUDs and their uses. Formerly known as the Journal of MUD Research.
Meta Description: [ Research articles, essays and comments about Virtual Environments. ]
MUSE Ltd. - Purveyors of fine, online games since 1985; principal products are MUD2 and the MUDDLE programming language and development system, both available for commercial licensing.
Open Site - An article with an explanation of what MUDs are, an overview of their history, and a list of variants.
Meta Description: [ Games: Online: MUDs - Open Site. ]
Richard A. Bartle: Players Who Suit MUDs - Discusses whether MUDs are games, pass times, sports or entertainments and suggests four kinds of player: achiever, explorer, socializer or killer.
Vae Victus - Contains news, logs, history, and a message board.
Meta Description: [ Vae Victus News ]
