I think you've nailed the distinctions quite well. There was a strong academic bias in the Tiny* world -- James Aspnes, author of TinyMUD, was a CMU professor. "Fuzzy" Mauldin was also working at CMU post-PhD when he wrote Julia, the primordial TinyMUD bot (and before he went off to found Lycos). Which is not to say that there weren't a bunch of rowdy college students on TinyMUD (oh hi, that's me), and as I recall MUD itself was written while Richard Bartle was an undergrad.
Thanks. I never played much in the TinyM* world, pretty much went straight to LambdaMOO. Some really interesting community there, though, and I was always intrigued by the MUF forth in TinyMUCK as kind of a different model to MOO in LambdaMOO.
-- Karl Porcupine (#18502 originally then #49702 later). Just logged in, looks like it's been 2 years as there were two birthday cakes waiting for me in my mail :-)
I think you've nailed the distinctions quite well. There was a strong academic bias in the Tiny* world -- James Aspnes, author of TinyMUD, was a CMU professor. "Fuzzy" Mauldin was also working at CMU post-PhD when he wrote Julia, the primordial TinyMUD bot (and before he went off to found Lycos). Which is not to say that there weren't a bunch of rowdy college students on TinyMUD (oh hi, that's me), and as I recall MUD itself was written while Richard Bartle was an undergrad.
-- Garrett (#17086)