muds

MUDs, the both spiritual and technological precursors to UO also used flat files for storage of both maps and users.

My points are about taking the video at face value out of context, which is probably what lead to clear-as-muds comment.

You reminded me with your talk of MUDs of the growing IF (interactive fiction) movement.

The language used to program the MUD isn't really used for much beyond developing MUDs, though it is a predecessor of Pike.

Btw, MUDs were awesome, and I had my first real relationship by meeting someone via a MUD.

All I cared about was getting through the school day so I can could get home and play MUDs.

This was before the Ultima Online dev team started soliciting ideas from rec.games.muds.

Would also like to give some props to Discworld MUD, which served as both my introduction to MUDs and to the Discworld book series.

Dang it, now I'm nostalgic for playing MUDs on a VT1000 in the 90s.

It could be useful for MUDs too, among other things.

In high school at about 14-15 I had friends who showed me MUDs, and a few of us worked on a little MOO.

Before the graphics, there were thousands of MUDs.

MUDs are significantly different in that you have to read, solve, and think a lot more rather than the "watch six timers tick down and then hit a button" gameplay loop of most modern MMOs.