[ih] network games, was Re: Fwd: How Plato Influenced the Internet

[Toerless Eckert]

Thanks for the pointers.

Yes, mud is also a vivid memory. I set up the mud at my university in the late 80th,
but within a year or so, we decided to take it down because we had some students
getting addicted and faulting on their studies. IMHO, all those social
problems that the wider population only started to experience in he 20xx
where already explored in research decades earlier. I only remember few
research publications about those social aspects back then though (some
in the UK but more related to video collaboration than gaming).

Cheers
    Toerless

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 07:00:02PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> Toerless Eckert via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hah & thanks. History of the network wrt. latency and gaming. Fun topic.
> >
> > Games without a competitive real-time element worked best
> > over early WANs. Such as round based strategy games.
> 
> Going off on a tangent, one of the highlights of 2021 for me has been the
> "50 years of text games" blog / newsletter by Aaron A. Reed. So many great
> stories about a wonderfully broad variety of people and the games they
> made! There have been a couple of articles that are particularly relevant
> to Internet history:
> 
> https://if50.substack.com/p/1980-mud
> 
> https://if50.substack.com/p/1990-lambdamoo
> 
> Tony.
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