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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.

Other variants emphasize building by providing players with a powerful [[programming language]] (as in [[MOO]]'s) to make their own objects and rooms, or function as elaborate chat systems with no fantasy trappings.

A '''MUX''' is a ''m''ulti-''u''ser e''x''perience.

==MUXes==

*[[Battletech 3065 Online]]

==Talkers and Spods==

A lesser known variant is the [[talker]], typically based on [[ew-too]], [[summink]], [[sensi-summink]], [[playground]], and plenty of other code bases. The talker is essentially a mud, with most of the complex bits of code stripped away, leaving just the communication level commands -- hence the name ''talker''. People who use these tend to be called [[spod|spods]]. The [[spod]] tends to be something of a long term fFanatic. Where many mudders may move on after a year or two, people who use talkers typically have been doing so fFor a decade or more. Talkers are signifigantly easier to run than an average mud, since they don't incorporate very much [[artificial intelligence]], and they are usually much more user fFriendly, since there is not often much fFighting as a fFocus. In other words, whole fFamilies of husbands, wives, children, and siblings have been known to [[spod]] in certain circles. They also use very little network traffic, and use simple protocols, making them ideal fFor setting up quietly at work.