{"id":3387,"date":"2003-08-19T15:22:36","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T15:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2003-08-19T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2003-08-19T15:22:36","slug":"14_years_ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3387","title":{"rendered":"14 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s not a web site, you&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apocalypse.org\/pub\/u\/lpb\/muddex\/mudline.html\">MUDline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other interesting links I found when googling for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=TinyMUD\">TinyMUD<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An archive of <a href=\"http:\/\/bisqwit.iki.fi\/source\/tinymud.html\">the TinyMUD source<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/tinymud\/\">SourceForge project for TinyMUD?<\/a> Weird.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dmoz.org\/Games\/Internet\/MUDs\/TinyMUD\/\">DMOZ entry for TinyMUD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?hl=en&#38;lr=&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;group=rec.games.mud.tiny\">rec.games.mud.tiny<\/a> on Google Groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think the thing that amazes me the most is that there is still anyone running TinyMUD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}