AT&T buys INN. They subsequently lose their shirt.
LegendMUD opens with Carnage refugees (both Kosters and Delashmit, as well as others); first classless MUD? Uses a reverse-engineered and improved scripting language based on Worlds of Carnage 's.
Fujitsu's Cultural Technologies division reintroduces Habitat in the US as WorldsAway . It is later shipped in Japan as Fujitsu Habitat II .
Worlds Inc, founded in Seattle, launches WorldsChat .
Avalon opens as a pay-for-play MUD on the Internet after four years as a dial-up MUD in the UK. Is this the first commercial MUD on the Internet?
Nexon, based in Korea, begins work on Kingdom of the Winds , a graphical tile-based MUD.
Total Entertainment Network (TEN) gets going.
" TEN went into national Beta testing in 1994, before Jack Heistand, Kleiner Perkins, or Outland (it was just Planet Optigon then) were on the scene. It had a multiplayer version of SimCity , chess, checkers, chat spaces, multiple interface themes, game-partner matching, editorial, and the ability to play games like Descent with two players via the service. There were just about 12 people in the company. Outland and Kleiner Perkins joined in 1995. Jack Heistand joined in 1996."
” Daniel Goldman
"Jack Heistand was formerly of EA Sports. Funding came from Vinod Khosla of Kleiner Perkins, who merged Outland with Optigon and pumped in $10 million."
” Jessica Mulligan
A company called Cyberspace, Inc. gets going. This will eventually be Turbine (developers of AC “ JMM).
"Founders were Jeremy Gaffney (CEO), Jonathan Monserrat (President/Treasurer), Kevin Langevin (Secretary), and Timothy Miller. None of the rest of the founders are still in the games biz; they all left Turbine before I did (in January 1998)."
