I'm from the old days of gaming when Doom was slowly starting to introduce death matches or when I would play with 8 buddies on Syndicate Wars and RP with them via a large BBS organization in Montreal.

I think my first true MMO was when Mankind Beta started back in early 1998.

I don't remember using the term MUN though... I always used PO

"Player Of" = PO

Originally posted by kasta

 I'm going to have to plead ignorance on the mun thing but since there are some old school peeps in this thread I've got a question.  I know that MUD stood for Multi User Dungeon and MUSH was Multi User Shared Hallucination but what the heck did MOO stand for?

MOO = Mud + Object Oriented and was a programming data base language that allowed other users of the MUD to use virtual creted objects.

Originally posted by mrziggz

   My only guess is that she means MUD?

Well I answered no because I have no idea what a MUN is, but I certainly know what a MUD is & have played them.

I've been playing MMO's since Fates of Twinion on the Sierra Network, NWN on AOL, Dark Sun Online on TEN, UO, AC, DAOC, SWG, and a swath of the "next gen" games that have all pretty much sucked.  Also played and admined on MUDs between the time after NWN was cancelled and Dark Sun and UO were released.

I have never heard the term Mun used in any of them.

Drev

being only 18 my first MMO was Diablo2 which i can never recall seeing MUN used lol so no idea

that being about 9 years ago now xD

first game i ever played over any kind of internet connection? direct modem-to-modem Warcraft 2 and Duke Nukem 3d

first game meant to be truly played online? i remember playing Runescape when the patch that introduced Runite and the dragon quest was implemented and there was no 99 smithers , i think the highest at that point was high 80s

Originally posted by allstar101

being only 18 my first MMO was Diablo2 which i can never recall seeing MUN used lol so no idea

that being about 9 years ago now xD

Diablo 2 is NOT an mmo........... there is no MASSIVE multiplayer in Diablo 2...........people who call Diablo 2 an mmo also think anything with more than 2 players is an mmo.........

Originally posted by Zorvan01

Originally posted by allstar101

being only 18 my first MMO was Diablo2 which i can never recall seeing MUN used lol so no idea

that being about 9 years ago now xD

 

Diablo 2 is NOT an mmo........... there is no MASSIVE multiplayer in Diablo 2...........people who call Diablo 2 an mmo also think anything with more than 2 players is an mmo.........

You are correct - D2 was not an MMO - but it was still a helluva great game.

Originally posted by Teala

Originally posted by kasta

 I'm going to have to plead ignorance on the mun thing but since there are some old school peeps in this thread I've got a question.  I know that MUD stood for Multi User Dungeon and MUSH was Multi User Shared Hallucination but what the heck did MOO stand for?

 

MOO = Mud + Object Oriented and was a programming data base language that allowed other users of the MUD to use virtual creted objects.

Thank you, Teala.  I've been wondering what that meant for years. :)

Originally posted by Teala

So if you've been playing MMORPG's online for a long time I have a trivia question for you.  All I ask is that if you do know the answer do not give it away.   If you don't go ahead and post what you think a Mun is.

 

Gemstone 3 was my first MUD.  I remember playing it with a black screen and white text.  I can remember how happy I was when they created a graphical map interface front end.  You could download this program, run it, activate the game and it would give you a little map with an arrow pointing the direction you were facing.  This was my first MMO.

About 10,000 people played it total.  We'd have like 3500 online at once.  I made some really incredible friends in that game.

Simutronics did a good job back in the day.  I miss GS3 sometimes.

Originally posted by Teala

Oh and just like the word grue, some of you have never heard of...

Of course I've heard of 'Grue' but as for Mun, nope, never once in well over two decades of gaming online.

Never heard the term MUN but then I kind of skipped over the whole MUD phase of online gaming anyway.  I'm certainly old enough that I could have played MUDS back in the day but I didn't have a computer at that time and certainly didn't have a internet connection.  In fact, I can remember thinking, "What the hell would I do with the internet." 

Yeah, I missed the whole thing.  Was unaware that it even existed.  It seems funny to me now but I remember telling a friend of mine about this great idea I had that someone could make a game world like our old P&P games and then get other people to connect online to play it.  Heh, had no idea that that sort of thing had already been going on for years in the form of MUDs.

The first online game I played was Diablo and that was at a friends house.  And then EQ at the same guys house.  I remember when he got it and then I remember a day or two later he told me that he had found out it required a monthly subscription and the idea was so new and strange to me I was actually shocked (I missed UO too).

All of that earlier stuff was going on in my twenties and back then I spent most of my free time hanging around in bars or doing outdoorsy stuff.  That entire phase of internet evolution went on without my even being aware of it.

Originally posted by dterry

Originally posted by Zorvan01

Originally posted by allstar101

being only 18 my first MMO was Diablo2 which i can never recall seeing MUN used lol so no idea

that being about 9 years ago now xD

 

Diablo 2 is NOT an mmo........... there is no MASSIVE multiplayer in Diablo 2...........people who call Diablo 2 an mmo also think anything with more than 2 players is an mmo.........

You are correct - D2 was not an MMO - but it was still a helluva great game.

THAT I will agree with.

Originally posted by melmister

Well, not considering BBS..  Asheron's Call was my first.

Legend of the Red Dragon and Exitilus FTW, baby!

I don't remember the term either and played MUDs from way back. The only thing i did through aol back then was play a mud called hmm Dragon's Gate I think it was, until they started charging for it. I do sort of remember  seeing a word similar to mundane, that conveyed the same meaning, but cannot think of what it is. Heh, for all I know, maybe it was mun, but its been a while.

Funny thing is, I can still see the path in my head I took to get to spectres where I charmed one in dgate, lol, but can't remember terminology used.

My first "online" gaming experience was playing DOOM on a BBS with a 9600 baud modem. :)

Originally posted by Nov8tr

My first "online" gaming experience was playing DOOM on a BBS with a 9600 baud modem. :)

Hey!!! me too! that was really something!

i used to down the pc's at school because they were on a bnc ring.  Yes, im not THAT old because I was in high school when PC's first came out.

In grade 2 we had a mouse game that you gave the mouse an x and y co ord and it would move....I got in trouble for giving x 2000000 and y 20343211 ...and the teacher didn't want to turn off the vic 20 and load from tape again.

My first online game was UO over a 14.4 or 28.8 can't remember.

I was talking about icq today and remembered how important that was to play uo lol.

So not THAT old, but def not a newb either.

MUN was in use in my area around the same time that LAN came into the vernacular and took over.  

Multi User Network.

How old school?  Way back...we're talkin Doom over 56k when that was SCREAMING FAST.

Originally posted by Neverblade

MUN was in use in my area around the same time that LAN came into the vernacular and took over.  

 

Multi User Network.

 

How old school?  Way back...we're talkin Doom over 56k when that was SCREAMING FAST.

Wrong MUN. It was the first one I thought of as well, though.