Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the mud had settled (the field was in terrible shape in wet, clammy Connecticut), the Crimson rebounded and controlled the rest of the game...
...game called MUD is the latest rage on computer networks...
...game called MUD is the latest rage on computer networks...
Playing in a MUD is like wandering through a literary maze. Scenes are sketched out in a phrase or two -- a woody glade, a drafty cave -- and you move from one to the other by typing commands: go west, climb up, enter castle. In your travels, you run into various objects (a giggling robot, a sleeping sloth) as well as other characters. These can be other players, logging on from a remote computer, or cleverly designed computer programs masquerading as humans. You can communicate with anyone you meet by either speaking (typing a message that appears on the other player...
Some educators are trying to find a way to channel all that creative energy. Education-technology researcher Barry Kort administers a child-oriented MUD in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where children learn by doing. Among its virtual worlds are the Land of Oz and a model of Yellowstone National Park, complete with spouting geysers and wandering moose. The Yellowstone world was built by a nine-year-old boy just back from a family vacation. "Instead of writing about what he did on his summer vacation," says Kort, "he built a working model of his summer vacation...