16 May, 2013, arholly wrote in the 1st comment:
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Alright, another posting here got me thinking about looking at MUDs over the years. Does anyone have information or a good way to gather information on the number of muds for each year for the past 20-25 years? I'd like to look at the number of muds each year and compare it to events in computing and gaming over the different years. If people can get help get me numbers, I'll do the computing using Excel and SPSS.

To be more explicit, I'd be interesting in the following numbers:
Number of MUDs per year (going back to 1993, preferably to 1990)
Type of MUD's each year by code base (can be general such as MERC/ROM/Circle/ etc… I'd prefer more specifics, but I'll take overarching).
Start Date and End Date for each mud. That could be really crucial for determining the relevance to major events).

If anyone has information or suggestions on where to go, I'd appreciate it. I know I can use MUDstats for more recent information, but not sure about older information.

Thanks,
Arholly
16 May, 2013, Zeno wrote in the 2nd comment:
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TMC would be your best bet; maybe could try contact Iccy. Tyche also has been recording this data, but only recently. I think it was Tyche; posts are on TMC.
16 May, 2013, Arithorn wrote in the 3rd comment:
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You could just Wayback Machine TMC.

http://web.archive.org/web/2000051006233...

Wont give you all the info, but it's a start?
17 May, 2013, Tyche wrote in the 4th comment:
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I have a collection of mud listings posted to Usenet from 1990-1994.
ftp://sourcery.dyndns.org/archive/misc/mudlist...

I also have data from TMC from 2006-2012.
http://sourcery.dyndns.org/mudstats/muds...

You would have to fill the gap from later Usenet posts I would think, since the TMC listings that
began in 1998 were not archived by wayback machine.
17 May, 2013, Scandum wrote in the 5th comment:
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I think the following graph shows it all.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=...

Nice dip when WoW was released. A more massive dip should have occurred when Everquest was released, though this is going to be harder to prove.
17 May, 2013, arholly wrote in the 6th comment:
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Scandum said:
I think the following graph shows it all.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=...

Nice dip when WoW was released. A more massive dip should have occurred when Everquest was released, though this is going to be harder to prove.

That gives a good view of web clients, though I need to look and see if that is mud client's in existence or downloads, etc… Interesting statistic.
17 May, 2013, arholly wrote in the 7th comment:
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Tyche said:
I have a collection of mud listings posted to Usenet from 1990-1994.
ftp://sourcery.dyndns.org/archive/misc/mudlist...

I also have data from TMC from 2006-2012.
http://sourcery.dyndns.org/mudstats/muds...

You would have to fill the gap from later Usenet posts I would think, since the TMC listings that
began in 1998 were not archived by wayback machine.

Thanks Tyche. That is the kind of information I'm looking for.
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