LambdaMOO has its roots in the 1978 – 1980 work by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle to create and expand the concept of Multi-User Dungeon ( MUD ) – virtual communities.

Trubshaw converted MUD to BCPL ( the predecessor of C ), before handing over development to Richard Bartle, a fellow student at Essex University, in 1980.

MUD1 was reportedly closed down when Richard Bartle licensed MUD1 to CompuServe, and was getting pressure from them to close Essex MUD.

According to Richard Bartle, " People go there as part of a hero's journey — a means of self-discovery ".

Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle created the first MUD on a PDP-10.

Alan Cox had played the University of Essex MUD1 written by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle, and the gameplay was heavily influenced by MUD1.

* Dr. Richard A. Bartle, Pitfalls of Virtual Property – A philosophical case against the concept of " virtual property " ownership.

: 2005: Richard Bartle ( co-creator of MUD, ancestor to MMOs )

Current notable academics in this school include Richard Bartle, best known as co-creator of MUD1, Edward Tsang for his work on constraint satisfaction and computational finance, Professor Ray Turner for his numerous publication relating to Logic and Computation, Professor Vic Callaghan as head of the Intelligent Environments Group ( IEG ) and Simon Lucas for his research into Computational Intelligence and Computer Games namely for his research with the UK Research Network on Artificial Intelligence and Video Game technologies.

In his book Designing Virtual Worlds, Richard Bartle ( co-creator of the original MUD ) cited DikuMUD as one of the five " major codebases used for ( textual ) virtual worlds ".

The examples Aarseth gives include a diverse group of texts: wall inscriptions of the temples in ancient Egypt that are connected two-dimensionally ( on one wall ) or three dimensionally ( from wall to wall or room to room ); the I Ching ; Apollinaire ’ s Calligrammes in which the words of the poem “ are spread out in several directions to form a picture on the page, with no clear sequence in which to be read ”; Marc Saporta ’ s Composition No. 1, Roman, a novel with shuffleable pages ; Raymond Queneau ’ s One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems ; B. S. Johnson ’ s The Unfortunates ; Milorad Pavic ’ s Landscape Painted with Tea ; Joseph Weizenbaum ’ s ELIZA ; Ayn Rand ’ s play Night of January 16th, in which members of the audience form a jury and choose one of two endings ; William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter ’ s Racter ; Michael Joyce ’ s Afternoon: a story ; Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle ’ s Multi-User Dungeon ( aka MUD1 ); and James Aspnes ’ s TinyMUD.

MUDs are a class of multi-user real-time virtual worlds, usually but not exclusively text-based, with a history extending back to the creation of MUD1 by Richard Bartle in 1978.

In his book Designing Virtual Worlds, Richard Bartle ( co-creator of the original MUD ) mentioned that " several major codebases ( standalone MUD program suites ) were created from the basic DikuMUD original, the main ones being Circle, Silly, and Merc.

* Multi-User Entertainment, Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw's company

* Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw create what is commonly recognized as the first playable MUD.

Richard Allan Bartle ( born 10 January 1960 in Ripon, England ) is a British writer, professor and game researcher, best known for being the co-creator of MUD1 ( the first MUD ) and the author of the seminal Designing Virtual Worlds.

* Interview with Dr. Richard Bartle at GDC Online 2010

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The term " mob " is short for " mobile ", which was used by Richard Bartle for objects that were self-mobile in MUD1.

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The most notable columns at Skotos have been Jessica Mulligan's Biting the Hand and a column by Richard Bartle, the father of modern MUD design ( and thus most MMORPGs and other online games ).

Richard Bartle has compared player distaste for permadeath to player distaste for pedophilia.

Richard Bartle called out as advantages of permanent death: restriction of early adopters from permanently held positions of power, content reuse as players repeat early sections, its embodiment of the " default fiction of real life ", improved player immersion from more frequent character changes, and reinforcement of high level achievement .< ref > Bartle summarizes these points in

Bob Jones, Sr. argued that if members of Graham ’ s campaign executive committee had rejected major tenets of orthodox Christianity, such as the virgin birth and the deity of Christ, then Graham had violated 2 John 9-11, which prohibits receiving in fellowship those who do “ not abide in the teaching of Christ .” In the 1960s, Graham further irritated fundamentalists by gaining the endorsement of Cardinal Richard Cushing for his Boston campaign and accepting honorary degrees from two Roman Catholic colleges.

Several liberals, including Adam Smith and Richard Cobden, argued that the free exchange of goods between nations could lead to world peace, a view recognised by such modern American political scientists as Dahl, Doyle, Russet, and O ' Neil.

In one response to Gettier, the American philosopher Richard Kirkham has argued that the only definition of knowledge that could ever be immune to all counterexamples is the infallibilist one.

Many early workers noted that enzymatic activity was associated with proteins, but several scientists ( such as Nobel laureate Richard Willstätter ) argued that proteins were merely carriers for the true enzymes and that proteins per se were incapable of catalysis.

Richard Griffiths argued in 2005 that " fascism " is the " most misused, and over-used word, of our times ".

J. Philippe Rushton has argued that the effect should be called the " Lynn-Flynn effect ", after Richard Lynn, " because it was actually the Lynn ( 1982 ) article in Nature that first identified the trend in recent times ( amongst the Japanese ).

Richard of Wallingford, a local landowner, who had presented demands to Richard II on behalf of Wat Tyler in London, brought news of this to St Albans and argued with the abbot over the charter.

Philosophers Richard Wollheim and Thomas Baldwin have argued that Sartre's attempt to show that Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious is mistaken is based on a misinterpretation of Freud.

Both Henry II and Richard had argued that kings possessed a quality of " divine majesty "; John continued this trend and claimed an " almost imperial status " for himself as ruler.

William Everdell, for example, has argued that modernism began in the 1870s, when metaphorical ( or ontological ) continuity began to yield to the discrete with mathematician Richard Dedekind's ( 1831 – 1916 ) Dedekind cut, and Ludwig Boltzmann's ( 1844 – 1906 ) statistical thermodynamics.

" Film scholar Richard Schickel, while examining his charismatic screen presence and acting ability, argued: " As a movie actor he has no peer in this generation.

Although the details remain sketchy, Kerensky appeared to become frightened by the possibility of a coup and the order was countermanded ( by comparison, historian Richard Pipes has argued that the whole episode was engineered by Kerensky himself ).

Richard Feynman argued that high energy experiments showed quarks are real particles: he called them partons ( since they were parts of hadrons ).

Richard Wagner notoriously argued that those who were ethnically different could not comprehend the artistic and cultural meaning inherent in national culture.

In Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third ( 1768 ), Walpole disputed all the alleged murders and argued that Richard may have acted in good faith.

Another debate followed the appearance of The Bell Curve ( 1994 ), a book by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, who argued in favor of the hereditarian viewpoint.

Richard Owen argued for the latter hypothesis in the 19th century, based on fossils found in 1877 in New South Wales.

JIC members John Scarlett and Sir Richard Dearlove ( then head of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service ) gave evidence to the Inquiry in which they argued that the words used in the dossier were consistent with their assessment of the intelligence available at the time.

Eastwood has cited Bronco Billy as being one of the most relaxed shoots of his career and biographer Richard Schickel has argued that Bronco Billy is Eastwood's most self-referential character.

* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller

Philosopher Richard Rorty has argued that Foucault's ' archaeology of knowledge ' is fundamentally negative, and thus fails to adequately establish any ' new ' theory of knowledge per se.

Richard Rorty, for example, argued that relativist philosophers believe " that the grounds for choosing between such opinions is less algorithmic than had been thought ," but not that any belief is equally as valid as any other.

Richard Wolin has argued since 1991 that Derrida's work, as well as that of Derrida's major inspirations ( e. g., Bataille, Blanchot, Levinas, Heidegger, Nietzsche ), leads to a corrosive nihilism.