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If the original founders of MUDs (Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle) wanted MUDs to be free, it sure is curious that MUD I went commercial in 1984, and that Bartle still continues to run commercial MUDs (Trubshaw is, sadly, no longer with us.) Let's try not to forget that most of the early MUDs charged multiple dollars per hour to play.
And DIKU as our roots? Diku wasn't even released until 1990, when MUDs were already 12 years old.
--matt
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