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Games Online History

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It was a long time ago, but the popularity of tabletop RPGs like the original Dungeons & Dragons games wound up spawning a wholly unique kind of game that you hardly ever see anymore. Called Multi User Dungeons or MUDs, these games worked on college and business "terminal" computers and had no graphics, just little funny-shaped text to represent player characters, monsters, walls, and traps that people could fall into. Even today, games like Nethack and actual MUDs that are still running keep up this tradition.

The other kind of multiplayer games that had been popular through the late 80s were based on dial-up Bulletin Board Systems or BBS's, local machines run by computer enthusiasts that could be connected to with a phone line and a modem. Games like Tradewars 2002 and Legend of the Red Dragon allowed people to use a number of "turns" every day to play the game, interacting with other people in a somewhat disjointed way and trading, killing, and trying to become the most powerful player on the BBS. Once these bulletin boards became more popular, many of them started making a bit of money and had multiple phone lines so that several people could be on them at once, and that opened up all kinds of new avenues for this small niche in gaming. Online services like Compuserve and AOL spawned from the idea of BBS's, and while they all wound up turning into little more than regular internet providers, you can still see vestiges of how they worked in some of AOL's current interface and Keyword system.

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