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The original MUDs drew their inspiration from paper-and-pencil based games such as [[Dungeons and Dragons]] (hence their name), but over time variants have diversified into other models while retaining the textual format. For example, some variants are called MUCKs, MUSHs, LPMUDs, and 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 direclydirectly concerned with role-playing than [[MUD|MUDs]], dispensing with the scoring system and most rules.

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