Other memories...

[Deimos]

Lets see, its been almost 2 years since the last post in the thread but I figured I might as well post since I'm bored at work and enjoying everyone elses memories.

The first mud I ever played, was from an online service called NovaLINK. It had your typical AOL type charges back then, when you were paying out the arse for every hour you were online. They had two different muds, one was an adult themed mud where you could gamble and dress up your character, and the other was a mud similar to NannyMUD.

Thats where I met my first online girlfriend! She was about 27 and I think I was 15 at the time, lying about my real age. Whats funny is we actually spoke on the phone and I still played it off pretty well.

After my Mom cancelled the subscription because I was always on it, I was introduced to the wonderful world of freenet. The first free access I had online was from S.E.F.L.I.N. where you would have 45 minutes to do whatever in their BBS system, and then get disconnected and have to dial in and wait through busy signals.

Thats when I found out you can telnet outside of the SEFLIN computer, which was a whole new world to me. Started talking on IRC where I was a moderator (was so cool back then) for a server or some called us "dragons".

Then, I happened to telnet to a computer in Sweden, and not understanding any of the language I managed to figure out how to get to games, then found NannyMUD and BatMUD.

So, I started playing Nannymud, and was helped out by a few. I remember being "persuaded" to go pk which I had no clue what it was, and then some damn druid killed me outside the ship near the south coast.

It was a confusing world back then, and after a couple of breaks in between I still can't see myself not playing NannyMUD.

And with what Ladychris posted years ago, people wondered how she learned how to type so fast. It was always a process to explain to them you were playing a game.

[draculea]

 Well, I started mudding from the same high school and labs as Sparks! 
How did I find out about mudding ?

... well ... I was in my last year as a high school student, during the spring vacation, at the National Maths Competition, when I heard from a younger guy who was also student in my high school and who was also very interested in Informatics that my classmate Badoiu ( International medals in Informatics) was rocking in this great game on the net called Mud.

  Hmm, I said to myself, if that guy finds it interesting then it must be. So, after school started and everybody was so stressed out by the outcoming exams ( graduation exams + university exams ) and some teachers were letting us a bit loose... I started skipping some classes and going to the lab to mud. We had it all, lag, bad links, great players ( those were playing from a separate lab, with better keyboards and better connections), all sorts of players, always someone to party with or ask. And ofc those great sport games when the mud went down in the middle of the day.

  The story can go on ... But I do feel the need to tell you two things: the mud was, obviously, Nanny! And Badoiu was also know on Nanny as ..... Michel.

  Ah and I did kill rabbits in the graveyard tunnels for 2 weeks, while getting lost at the humpbacked bridge on the way to adv guild.
And I did get tricked into becoming pk so my first character is history. And man it was soooo hard to get to level 14 in those days.