AberMUD was the first popular internet-based MUD. The first version was written in B by Alan Cox for an old Honeywell mainframe and opened in 1987. In 1988 it was ported to C and to UNIX. This version (AberMUD 3) was made freely available to the world and as a result became the first popular MUD on the Internet. In computer gaming, a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon or Domain or Dimension) is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games and social chat rooms. ... B was the name of a programming language developed at Bell Labs. ... Alan Cox at FOSS.IN/2005 Alan Cox (born 1968) is a computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ... Honeywell Heating Specialties Company Stock Certificate dated 1924 signed by Mark C. Honeywell - courtesy of Scripophily. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... C is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ...

AberMUD was however far from the original MUD. The authors played the University of Essex MUD1 written by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle several years earlier, and the gameplay (although not the game world) were heavily influenced by MUD1. The University of Essex is a British plate glass university. ...

There were numerous variants extended and ported over the years, including one for the even more obscure Dell UNIX SVR4 on x86 hardware during the early 1990s.

AberMUD 3 was rewritten by Rich Salz and others to create an "AberMUD 4". This was rewritten to be far more efficient by Alf and Nicknack whose system "Dirt" is now used by most of the remaining AberMUD games on the internet. Rich Salz is currently Chief Security Officer of Datapower, which was recently acquired by IBM. He has made numerous contributions to recent work on XML and SOAP specifications, particularly involving security. ...

In 1991, Alan Cox wrote AberMUD IV (unrelated to AberMUD 4) and then AberMUD V, which was also used, with graphical extensions in the "Elvira" game by 'Horrorsoft' (a trading name of Adventure Soft). AberMUD V was later released under the GPL. Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1951) is better known for her on-screen persona Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. ... Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer which was established in the 1980s by Mike Woodroffe, then owner of Callisto Computers, one of the very early computer shops. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...

AberMUD is named after the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. About twenty AberMUDs remain in operation, but even as of 2002, they have few players. The University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth) is a leading teaching and research university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

See also

DUM Komi points (komidashi is the more complete Japanese language term, dumm in Korean) are points given in the game of go to one player to add to his or her score. ...

External links

• List of extant AberMUDs
• A mostly complete history of AberMUD V packages