1993


  • Mosaic makes the Internet graphical.

  • Doom comes out in December.

  • The Discworld MUDlib is released.

    "The choice of MUDlibs for MudOS helps add to the driver's growing popularity. At this time, the Discworld MUDlib contains the most advanced command parser and user interface available in a MUDlib."

    George Reese

  • Worlds of Carnage closes . It will reopen later in the year, but several players and admins leave, never to return, including Damion Schubert, Rick Delashmit, and the Kosters.

  • CDC sells PLATO to The Roach Organization. CDC stays in computer-aided instruction, but calls their clone of PLATO Cybis. CERL at University of Illinois started NovaNET to replace it, but that was then transferred to University Communications, Inc.

  • On LambdaMOO , Mr. Bungle is toaded. This leads to Julian Dibbell's article "A Rape in Cyberspace" in the Village Voice , which catapults MUDs into the limelight. This also leads to the formation of a petition system on LambdaMOO , which is a voting mechanism for players with votes being binding on the MUD admins.

  • TSN first expands, then is purchased by AT&T and becomes the ImagiNation Network.

    "In 1993, TSN expanded and then collapsed ”well was eaten by AT&T. When they expanded, they added on to The Shadow of Yserbius with Fates of Twinion . Both games were written by Joe Yberra, who last I heard was at Ensemble. After AT&T ate TSN , it became The ImagiNation Network. Ken Williams was moving toward the realm anyway. The bandwidth of running TSN was killing it. I believe the backbone was Sprint-net. Sierra leased the lines and subscribers could buy blocks of hours per month or unlimited hours for about $120 a month. This is what killed it. Ken had no idea how the hard- core gamers would eat his bandwidth."

    Brian Thomson



Developing Online Games. An Insiders Guide
Developing Online Games: An Insiders Guide (Nrg-Programming)
ISBN: 1592730000
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 230

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