I'd be curious to know if and how people are still using text (telnet) based moo's these days... (anyone remember those? or am I too antiquated a generation of internet users already?;-)) r Radhika Gajjala _______________________ http://www.cyberdiva.org
yes, people still use them, and people use them with a graphical interface over them. the Electronic Literature Organization's chat is conducted via linguamoo, which is the one I'm more familiar with. There are certainly many others out there, but I think you have to be in the right circle. We have a MOO in hci at vt http://moosburg.cs.vt.edu/ and one in english and one in the center for applied technologies in the humanities http://www.english.vt.edu/~projects/projects.html i don't have any usage statistics though, which would be nice. I know the CATH one is used primarily only for teaching special class periods, etc. On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 09:07 AM, radhika gajjala wrote:
I'd be curious to know if and how people are still using text (telnet) based moo's these days...
(anyone remember those? or am I too antiquated a generation of internet users already?;-))
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I've been keeping statistics on LambdaMOO over the past year or two. Currently, the number of players registered at Lambda is 3579. Note, this includes alternate players, players who haven't been active recently, reaper protected players etc. Nonetheless, the reapers do a good job of weeding out inactive players. This number is down from 4139 in November 2001. Aldon __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com
I'd be curious to know if and how people are still using text (telnet) based moo's these days...
Lots. Purdue uses them actively for writing tutoring and other writing-center-centric stuff; UFL, Illinois State, UTexas, and others have similar purposes for them. http://nova.bsuvc.bsu.edu/~gsiering/netoric/ the infamous MediaMOO is now hosted on a server at Northern Illinois, if i'm not totally mistaken. [previous homes were MIT and GATech...] there's a bit of a rift within some bits of the moo community (mostly the compositionists and writing teachers) over whether or not adding graphics and sound is productive or not. to briefly characterize that rift - "enCore users versus old-school JHCore users" - enCore supports a whizzy HTTP interface, while JHCore is mostly-just-text. MOOs are probably not the ideal place for someone to build a "new media publishing environment", but that seems to be what "let's rebuild MOO!" folk often seem to think would be helpful. nothing new under the sun... :o elijah
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