I'm a MUDder. Started in 1991 with Gemstone III, went to a MOO that closed down a few years later, and I've been playing ArmageddonMUD ever since.
For the uninitiated - a MUD is a multiplayer interactive roleplaying text-based game. There are *no* graphics at all. They are usually played with a game client based on telnet such as Mushclient, TinTin, or Zmud. Armageddon in particular is a pretty intensive roleplaying environment and it's been around since the 1990's. It's permanent death - when your character dies, you make a new one. Requires application submission for new characters - because characters have to be "in genre" - which is a post-apocalyptic non-earth world where magicks are dangerous and outlawed in some places, and the governments of the cities are as corrupt as the criminals. Sort of the Dark Sun campaign of Dungeons and Dragons meets Frank Herbert's Dune novels, with just a touch of Game of Thrones tossed in for kicks and giggles.
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