Around fourteen years ago, one of the bigger time wasters for me on the net came online. It was called TinyMUD and I at least partly blame it for my dropping out of school. For those of you who were once there, or curious about a taste of history, you can go visit it at 216.27.160.128 4201. No, it's not a web site, you've got to know how to use things like telnet, or some mud client like tinyfugue to connect. For a pretty decent guide to the history of MUDs, check out the MUDline.

Other interesting links I found when googling for TinyMUD:

• An archive of the TinyMUD source
• A SourceForge project for TinyMUD? Weird.
• The DMOZ entry for TinyMUD
• rec.games.mud.tiny on Google Groups

I think the thing that amazes me the most is that there is still anyone running TinyMUD.