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With the dominant usage of MUD being as a generic term [1] rather than specifically denoting combat-oriented games — indeed, both TinyMUD and MOO are MUDs in name (MOO stands for MUD, Object-Oriented), while MUSH and MUCK are backronymed puns on "MUD" — this positions MU* as actually being a subset of MUD.
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The first MUD client with a notable number of features was Tinytalk by Anton Rang in January 1990, for Unix-like systems. [7] In May 1990 TinyWar 1.1.4 was released by Leo Plotkin which was based on TinyTalk 1.0 and added support for event-driven programming. [8]
TinyMUCK or, more broadly, a MUCK, is a type of user-extendable online text-based role-playing game, designed for role playing and social interaction. [1]
To distance itself from the combat-oriented traditional MUDs it was said that the "D" in TinyMUD stood for Multi-User "Domain" or "Dimension"; this, along with the eventual popularity of acronyms other than MUD (such as MUCK, MUSH, MUSE, and so on) for this kind of server, led to the eventual adoption of the term MU* to refer to the TinyMUD family.
In multiplayer online games, a MUSH (a backronymed [1] variation on MUD most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, [2] [3] [4] though Multi-User Shared Hack, [5] Habitat, and Holodeck are also observed) is a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the same time.
FurryMUCK is one of the oldest and largest non-combat MUD-style games in existence.It was founded in 1990 [1] as an online gathering place for furry fans to meet and socialize in a virtual role-playing environment.
Muck (gambling), a number of actions, both legal and illegal Muck (poker), the discard pile or the action of discarding one's hand; Multi-User Chat Kingdom or TinyMUCK, a type of text-based multi-user game or chat forum; Muck, an online multiplayer survival game by Dani