Was it fascinating? Did it feel like the amazing future? Were you all too aware of the mounting cost relative to what you were actually doing?
Was it fascinating? Did it feel like the amazing future? Were you all too aware of the mounting cost relative to what you were actually doing?
Starting when I was in 7th or 8th grade (late 80s - early 90s) I started playing on MUDs (Multi User Dungeons), a precursor to an MMORPG that was all text based. It was part game, part chat room. It was not until a couple years later that I played regularly. They were not really an online service, but I did use aol as my isp starting in 96, but only to connect to a MUD or EverQuest.
I absolutely loved MUDs.
The one I remember playing, there were six other players all killing the same set of rat spawns. The game would only generate a handful every few minutes, and if you didn’t damage it, you didn’t get any experience. So id sit there waiting for my chance.
I also remember a Discworld MUD!
Same. Before surfing the web, I was playing MUDs… and for a long time afterwards. I love 'em.
I remember being at the computer center at the local university and someone came running in freaking out about the World Wide Web and then we had to figure out what a browser was and how to work it.