From: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@humansystems.com>
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:48:29PM -0600, Jon Winters wrote:
> Years later I learned that one of my supervisors was a MUD addict. I
> spent some time with him trying to learn what was so compelling that he
> would spend 4+ hours every day at work MUDding. For him it was part of
> his reality.
>
> Its an interesting topic. We considered them freakish back 1993. Years
> from now it might be perfectly normal to spend the majority of your day
> interacting with others in cyberspace. (in realtime, not email or web)
I'm on a MOO when at work, since coworkers (including my boss) and
others hang out there -- in fact, it's the most effective way to find
them.
The conversation on the MOO is quite weird -- much of it is violent and
grotesquely sexual (in a fun sense), yet it's where a lot of work gets
done. Right now, in the window next to this, we're simultaneously
figuring out authentication on one of our Apache servers, working out
the arrangement of a techno track and... uh... something else
involving disembodied heads and 50 foot genitalia that I'd be loth to
describe even if I could. Not yer usual corporate environment, but it
works!
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