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created by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle, (Bartle, 1990) the first virtual world
that spawned genre of network-based games where users could play in the MUD
virtual world by connecting to the network and interact with other user in the virtual
world, this invention create a big stepping stone for Mass Multiplayer Online Games,
(Mark, 2011), (Carey, 2014).
From 1960s discoveries of ways to connect computers to one another, to connect
users to one another lead to the date January 1st, 1983 a historic moment where
internet is created leading to the first world-wide Massive Multiplayer Online Role
Playing Game in 1984, which is called MAD, stands for Multi Access Dungeon. This
Invention was backed by the early MUD and the world-wide connectivity of the
internet running on a network called BITNET. Soon after it launch people all over
the world was connecting to MAD central server. These adoption rates frighten
BITNET’s administrator s. More less two great years the game was so popular that
people flooded the network that causes BITNET to terminate the game, (Lextrait,
2014).
Due to all the hard work of people in the past challenging and advancing technology
needs for network and game, give birth to the online game we knew today.
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