Text-Based Metaverse

Decades before players roamed the photorealistic landscapes of World of Warcraft or built blocky empires in Minecraft, the first digital metaverse was entirely invisible. It existed strictly as green text on black terminal screens in the basements of 1970s university campuses. These were the MUDs-Multi-User Dungeons-and they invented the concept of shared virtual existence. The Text-Based Metave...