Re: What happened to Materiamagica???
The problem with that is telnet itself is a particular implementation of a network connection. There is at least one very promising mud that I can think of that does not use telnet (or at least does not expose access for anything but its Flash client), yet it very clearly is a mud.
I think the distinction to be made is that a mud is a virtual world, with a virtual representation of space in its interface. You don't find this in IRC. In the most IRC-like mushes you'll find a semblance of a representation of space -- even if in practice their rooms aren't much different than IRC channels, they clearly are 'rooms' laid out in some arrangement.
eta: On further reflection (in the five seconds since I posted this ), there's no reason you couldn't set up a virtual space in IRC, using a bunch of channels and some scripting. But does anyone do that?
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