When I was a wee lad, back in the 1900s, I used to MUD.
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When I was a wee lad, back in the 1900s, I used to MUD. It was unusual for someone who was 13 or so to have a shell account, but I had one.
As a result, I was basically one of the few children on MUDs that were largely full of college students or other adults. They were some of the first people who taught me how to program (an Objective C based language) and became good friends with a number of them. I didn't really know many folks inrl who were giant computer nerds, so it became an important social space for me (as well as a good place to kill dragons).
But like most things from ye' old internet this is going away. What worries me particularly is that this is not limited to commercial entities. Instead, what's left of non-profit, player content-sourced gaming will end up vanishing because it will lumped in with 'social media'. You want to make a new MUD? Too bad, its illegal unless you pay Persona $30k a year or some shit.
It might get to the point where @jerry has to ban people from New York.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4609/amendment/original
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When I was a wee lad, back in the 1900s, I used to MUD. It was unusual for someone who was 13 or so to have a shell account, but I had one.
As a result, I was basically one of the few children on MUDs that were largely full of college students or other adults. They were some of the first people who taught me how to program (an Objective C based language) and became good friends with a number of them. I didn't really know many folks inrl who were giant computer nerds, so it became an important social space for me (as well as a good place to kill dragons).
But like most things from ye' old internet this is going away. What worries me particularly is that this is not limited to commercial entities. Instead, what's left of non-profit, player content-sourced gaming will end up vanishing because it will lumped in with 'social media'. You want to make a new MUD? Too bad, its illegal unless you pay Persona $30k a year or some shit.
It might get to the point where @jerry has to ban people from New York.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4609/amendment/original
@mikesiegel it feels like governments everywhere are starting to do this. Once we get a few companies that offer those services and they hire lobbyists, the movement will go into overdrive. It very well may become too legally perilous to operate the services. Hopefully not though.
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