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A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s
The authors would like to thank Pavel Curtis for his wonderful software. Albert Lin prepared statistics for this paper and has been a key contributor to the development and daily running of MediaMOO. Wade Roush's work with the virtual STS Center on MediaMOO helped bring in enough new, interesting people to get the community really on its feet. Jeff d'Arcy, Michele Evard, Remy Evard, Lenny Foner, and Greg Hudson have all contributed to the project's development and maintenance. Doug Alan, David Blank-Edelman, and Randy Sargent have helped to keep purple crayon, the computer MediaMOO runs on, functioning smoothly. Paul Dourish, F. Randall Farmer, Daniel Rose, Wade Roush, and Alan Wexelblat commented on drafts of this paper. Sherry Turkle's work helped to inspire the project. Most of all, the authors would like to thank:
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Notes
(1) To connect to MediaMOO from the Internet, type: telnet purple-crayon.media.mit.edu 8888, connect guest. If you have difficulty, send electronic mail to mediamoo-registration@media.mit.edu. Go Back Again
(2) For an introduction to MUDs, see [Curtis 92] and [Bruckman 92-3]. Go Back Again
(3) The MOO software was developed by Pavel Curtis at Xerox PARC and generously made available to the public for free. It can be obtained via anonymous ftp from parcftp.xerox.com in /pub/MOO. Go Back Again
(4) Some people have more than one character. Go Back Again
(5) This does not count the 33 guest characters and 5 utility characters. There are a total of 413 character objects in the database. Of these, 289 have connected within the last month. Go Back Again
(6) This conference room was programmed by Barry (Barry Hayes). Go Back Again
(7) This conference room was programmed by Daniel (Daniel Rose). Go Back Again
Comments welcome via electronic mail: asb@media.mit.edu
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