From: Barry Kort <BKort@BBN.COM>
Subject:  Reference to MUD newsgroup (Was Re: Virtual Reality)
Date: 9 Nov 90 16:55:42 GMT
Organization: BBN Labs

Several students have posted requests for information on VRs for use in 
term papers.

Since the high-tech end of VRs is largely inaccessible to most people, you 
might want to explore and write about the low-tech end of the genre.  I am 
talking about text-based VRs, otherwise known as Multi-User Dungeons 
(MUDs).  These network-based cyberworlds are accessible to anyone who has 
access to the Internet.  So if you can read and post to Netnews, you can 
probably gain access to MUDs as well.

MUDs encourage extemporaneous creative writing and imagination, much like 
old time radio.  For information on getting started, read net.rec.mud.  

Barry Kort (aka Moulton)
Visiting Scientist
BBN Labs
Cambridge, MA