I used to log in to LambdaMOO about once a year just to keep my account active. But it started feeling not just like a museum, but a mausoleum, and I let my account lapse.
Many of the virtual environment ideas from LambdaMOO exist now in modern games. But one big idea was mostly lost, the idea that players of the game could also program the game. Not just decorate their own house but write code to give the objects in that house functionality. Roblox has this in it, as does Minecraft in a limited way, but mostly it is a lost idea.
Many of the virtual environment ideas from LambdaMOO exist now in modern games. But one big idea was mostly lost, the idea that players of the game could also program the game. Not just decorate their own house but write code to give the objects in that house functionality. Roblox has this in it, as does Minecraft in a limited way, but mostly it is a lost idea.