Re: Welcome back to me!
I just checked, and the quote seems to be correct:
Bartle, Richard (2003). Designing Virtual Worlds. New Riders. pp. 9-10, 741. ISBN 0-1310-1816-7. "[pp. 9-10] TinyMUD was deliberately intended to be distanced from the prevailing hack-and-slay AberMUD style, and the "D" in its name was said to stand for "Dimension" (or, occasionally, "Domain") rather than "Dungeon;" this is the ultimate cause of the MUD/MU* distinction that was to arise some years later. [pp. 741] The "D" in MUD stands for "Dungeon" [...] because the version of ZORK Roy played was a Fortran port called DUNGEN."
Derived? Not really. CBBS (the first public dial-up BBS) was developed the same year as MUD (1978), but MUD ran on a University network, which was connected to ARPANET (the predecessor of the internet) in 1980. I'm not aware of any BBS muds older than 1989 (Legends of the Red Dragon - if you consider that a mud), and most seem to have started with the release of MajorMUD in 1994.
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