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The original MUDs drew their inspiration from paper-and-pencil based games such as [[Dungeons and Dragons]] (hence their name), and the computer game [[Original Adventure]]. The first MUD as such was [[abermud]]created but over time variants have diversified into other models while retaining the textual format. For example, some variants areand calledwritten [[MUCK|MUCKS]],by MUSHs,Roy LPMUDs,Trubshaw and [[MOO|MOOs]].Richard

Bartle at Essex University in the UK [http://www.ludd.luth.se/mud/aber/mud-history.html]. The first popular MUD was [[AberMUD]] written by Alan Cox, also known as Anarchy, named after the University of Aberystwyth, Wales. Over time variants have diversified into other models while retaining the textual format. For example, some variants are called [[MUCK|MUCKS]], MUSHs, LPMUDs, and [[MOO|MOOs]].

A MUSH is often said to mean ''mu''lti-player ''s''hared ''h''allucination. MUSHes descend from the program TinyMUD. MUSHes date back to the early [[1990s]]. They are more directly concerned with role-playing than MUDs, dispensing with the scoring system and most rules.