Top Mud Sites Forum - View Single Post - Determining the Origin and Meaning of RPI

Bakha · 05-01-2008, 03:30 PM

I'm not sure that really matters, as the term was in broad use at least as far back as 1998, as evidenced by the linked usenet post. If you'll look at the context of some of the RPI posts from back then, it's pretty obvious that the term was in common use elsewhere prior to that, and that it was applied specifically to Arm, FEM, HL, and 4Lands. I imagine if you could search the ISCA BBS posts from their mudding forums, which is where most of the RPI community (I told you we were insular back then) hung out and communicated, you'd find frequent use of the term. Of course, the ISCA deal does also serve to show that the term might not have been used broadly in the mudding community at large to reference that particular set of games. Anyway, I digress.

05-01-2008, 03:30 PM	#25
Bakha Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 46	Re: Determining the Origin and Meaning of RPI I'm not sure that really matters, as the term was in broad use at least as far back as 1998, as evidenced by the linked usenet post. If you'll look at the context of some of the RPI posts from back then, it's pretty obvious that the term was in common use elsewhere prior to that, and that it was applied specifically to Arm, FEM, HL, and 4Lands. I imagine if you could search the ISCA BBS posts from their mudding forums, which is where most of the RPI community (I told you we were insular back then) hung out and communicated, you'd find frequent use of the term. Of course, the ISCA deal does also serve to show that the term might not have been used broadly in the mudding community at large to reference that particular set of games. Anyway, I digress.