• more about #muds
    huginn: I -still- go on an old muck from time to time. They're surprisingly hold up well even today if they have a strong community more »
    outsdr: LambdaMOO. Started on it in 1991; it's why I got my first internet account. Played it in the VAX lab at Frostburg State University, the same universit... more »
    Purple Dave: True story, when I was growing up the local library had all the then-current Pern books filed under Science Fiction. All but one. Only DragonsDawn, th... more »
    mactabby: Ah, great piece and the memories that come with it. I worked my way up through a MUD at uni and eventually ran it for two years, which taught me ever... more »
    Slatz_Grobnik: It's so strange to me. I consider myself geek and all, but there are these strange gaps in my experience. Comic books, for one, but also on-line commu... more »
    Michael Scott Shappe: I was also a PernMUSH addict, long, long ago. I watched one of my co-workers actually flunk out of school over it! I was always amazed, though, at how... more »
    jutman: Never have played any MUD or MUSH but I have ready every piece of anything on PERN. I so miss the night till 2 a.m. re-reading a book for the 3rd or 4... more »
    mad love for Astrid: While I missed the online roleplay train, I was healvly involed in x files fanfiction communites starting around '97. I still miss every crummy geocit... more »
    Elizabeth Zelle: I, as well, spent my formative High School years playing PernMUSH and this post brought back a lot of fond memories for me! I will never forget many o... more »
    Annalee Newitz: I was really into the Postmodernism MOO way back when. You could choose to have one of like seven genders (one of which was called "Spivak"). Basicall... more »
    Josh Wimmer: Awesome piece, Kaila. And Pern totally counts as SF! I played a couple of MUDs, but never got too involved or did anything with MUSHes -- I might have... more »
    Ed Grabianowski: What was the name of the Tolkien MUSH? Elendor? I messed around with that in college. I think I was an orc living in Moria. I recall the debates about... more »
    entertheoctopus: I never got into MUDS for some reason or another, but have been a committed tabletop roleplayer my entire life and, thus, can entirely relate to what ... more »
    Torley: I haven't played this incarnation of the Pern world, but even before I knew who Anne McCaffrey was, I used to play this strategy game on the C64: [www... more »
  • #virtualworlds

    Confessions Of A Virtual Dragonrider

    Have you ever loved a narrative so much that it took over your life? That's what happened to me with Dragonriders of Pern - especially when it became an online world. More »