Newbie's Perspective



I had never heard of MUD, MOO, and MUSH until I joined the course
1514F at OISE. The followings are some comments on my first
experiences of some MUDs and MOOs I have tried.


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(1) logos.daedlaus.com 7777

   LambdaMoo
   Not so many people were there (6 including me) at night. For beginners,
   I think we need someone to go there together because we need at least
   2 persons in the same location to interact. If I go a MUDs or MOO
   alone, there is nothing to do except solving problems individually like
   math.

(2) dds.hacktic.nl (Dutch)

   It is interesting to look at other language which I do not understand
   totally. (Some of them are predictable from English words like
   'welkom', 'universiteit'.)
   The response was very slow.

(3) cheshire.oxy.edu 7777 (Zen Moo)

   This is my favorite MOO. It does not allow me to do anything except
   to do mediation. It is really fun. I like to keep quiet.

(4) ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu 8888 (Music MOO)

   CTDMOO
   It was very difficult to read the text.

(5) hero.village.virginia.edu 7777

   PMC-MOO. It is a virtual space designed to promote the exploration of
   postmodern theory and practice ?? What is postmodernism?


(6) Microworld.media.mit.edu 8888

   MediaMOO. This is a professional community, where people come to
   explore the future of media technology. It does not allow teachers
   to bring their students there.


(7) gopher cyberion.bbn.com

    WindsMARE - Travel adventure, role playing epic, famous for fight
    system. Once I entered, it was difficult to leave from it because
    I am not familiar with commands in there. Moreover, I could not
    leave help menu.

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In general, I am afraid that MUDs, MOO, and MUSH are very difficult to
use as an educational tool for beginners. First of all, there are too
many commands to learn. Second, it is very hard to read texts on MUDs,
MOO, and MUSH since the texts input by more than two users at the same
time are mixed together on the screen. Third, as I mentioned above,
beginners should go to MUDs, MOO, and MUSH with his/her company to try
some commands which require interaction with other users. Forth, it is
hard to find appropriate one which meets my interest among existing
MUDs, MOO, and MUSH. Last, I think that I MUST like computes very
much to learn this kind of stuff :-)


However, if I mastered the use of MUDs, MOO, and MUSH, I believe that
they would be very interesting tools for education since they create
any kind of virtual environment which provides us a lot of chances to
explore many experiences.


If you have any comments about this document, please contact me at
mhayashi@oise.on.ca.





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