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One is to refer to those programs descended from the original MOO server, and the other is to refer to any <a href="/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon" title="Multi-user dungeon">MUD</a> that uses object-oriented techniques to organize its database of objects, particularly if it does so in a similar fashion to the original MOO or its derivatives. Most of this article refers to the original MOO and its direct descendants, but see <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Non-descendant_MOOs">non-descendant MOOs</a> for a list of MOO-like systems. </p><p>The original MOO server was authored by Stephen White, based on his experience from creating the programmable <a href="/wiki/TinyMUCK" title="TinyMUCK">TinyMUCK</a> system.<sup id="cite_ref-bartle-white_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bartle-white-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-taylor_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-taylor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was additional later development and maintenance from <a href="/wiki/LambdaMOO" title="LambdaMOO">LambdaMOO</a> founder, and former <a href="/wiki/Xerox_PARC" class="mw-redirect" title="Xerox PARC">Xerox PARC</a> employee, <a href="/wiki/Pavel_Curtis" title="Pavel Curtis">Pavel Curtis</a>. </p><p>One of the most distinguishing features of a MOO is that its users can perform <a href="/wiki/Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">object-oriented programming</a> within the server, ultimately expanding and changing how it behaves to everyone.<sup id="cite_ref-bartle-moo_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bartle-moo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Examples of such changes include authoring new rooms and objects, creating new generic objects for others to use, and changing the way the MOO interface operates. The programming language used for extension is the MOO programming language, and many MOOs feature convenient libraries of <i>verbs</i> that can be used by programmers in their coding known as <i>Utilities</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>MOOs are network accessible, multi-user, programmable, interactive systems well-suited to the construction of text-based adventure games, conferencing systems, and other collaborative software. Their most common use, however, is as multi-participant, low-bandwidth <a href="/wiki/Virtual_reality" title="Virtual reality">virtual realities</a>. They have been used in academic environments for <a href="/wiki/Distance_education" title="Distance education">distance education</a>, collaboration (such as <a href="/wiki/Diversity_University" title="Diversity University">Diversity University</a>), group decision systems,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and teaching object-oriented concepts;<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but others are primarily social in nature, or used for <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_video_game" title="Role-playing video game">role-playing video games</a>, or simply to take advantage of the programming possibilities. They have also been used in scientific studies of <a href="/wiki/Presence_(telepresence)" title="Presence (telepresence)">virtual presence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most commonly, MOOs are connected to by users using a <a href="/wiki/Client_(computing)" title="Client (computing)">client</a> which speaks the <a href="/wiki/Telnet" title="Telnet">telnet</a> protocol, which provides a stay-alive connection with the host, to relay output and send commands. Some however have developed web interfaces, or other such methods; however this commonly limits interaction that the user can have, usually to the point they have no interaction, but instead can browse objects and discover typical information. Developments in cross-MOO networking have also led to the creation of SunNET, a hubless network allowing cross-MOO communication and add extra possibilities to cross-MOO development, including networked <a href="/wiki/Communication_channel" title="Communication channel">channels</a>. Another network called GNA-NET, designed by Gustavo Glusman of BioMOO connected seventeen mostly education sites. Most of these MOOs hosted online classes or other early versions of distance education.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Every MOO stores the content and state of all its objects within a <a href="/wiki/Persistence_(computer_science)" title="Persistence (computer science)">persistent</a> <a href="/wiki/Object_database" title="Object database">object database</a>, which keeps objects from being lost by a reset of the MOO server software or the computer hosting it. </p><p>New MOOs have to choose a starting database from which to set their MOO up, or they can use a minimal one which contains only the necessary objects to start a MOO. There are a handful of such MOO "core" databases which serve as foundations of code and utilities from which to start your MOO, including LambdaCore (from LambdaMOO), MinimalDB (considered the minimum necessary code and utilities to work usefully in a MOO), JHCore (from Jay's House Moo), and enCore (from LinguaMOO). </p><p>Every object in the MOO is assigned a number, and may be referred to by this number, prefixed with a <i>#</i>, as well as its name when the user is in the object's presence. Administrators, also known as <i><a href="/wiki/Wizard_(MUD)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wizard (MUD)">wizards</a></i>, who can manage the MOO, and assign certain global names to these objects, which are prefixed with <i>$</i>, a process known as <i>corifying</i>. They also feature parenting systems, and every object will have a parent, commonly eventually leading to <i>Root Class</i>, otherwise known as #1. #0 is also reserved as a special system object which is responsible for managing the list of global names, incoming network connections, and other information related to the operation of the system. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>MOO, along with all of its nephews, started out with <a href="/wiki/Text_based_adventure_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Text based adventure game">text based adventure games</a>. With the advent of the internet, <a href="/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon" title="Multi-user dungeon">MUD</a> was formed as a networked version of one of those games. Eventually it developed into a tree of different types of MUD, with MOO becoming one of them. </p><p>Stephen White (also known by the handles "Ghondahrl" and "ghond") wrote the first version of the MOO server, which was released on May 2, 1990, and used for the operation of a server called "<a href="/w/index.php?title=AlphaMOO&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="AlphaMOO (page does not exist)">AlphaMOO</a>". Pavel Curtis, an employee of <a href="/wiki/Xerox_PARC" class="mw-redirect" title="Xerox PARC">Xerox PARC</a> and also known by his handles "Lambda", and "Haakon", took the basic design, language, and code, fixed bugs and added features to release the second version, called "LambdaMOO" on October 30, 1990. </p><p>According to Jill Serpentelli in her paper Conversational Structure and Personality Correlates of Electronic Communication: </p> <dl><dd>Curtis went on to explain how the transition occurred from <a href="/w/index.php?title=AlphaMOO&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="AlphaMOO (page does not exist)">AlphaMOO</a> to LambdaMOO. After fixing bugs in the system, rewriting some of the code, adding more programming capability, and writing documentation, he had created what he termed "a truly separate entity" from the original AlphaMOO. He dubbed this new system LambdaMOO, after one of his names on the system and, according to Curtis, "because it's a key word in some of the other non-mud research that I do." The new system was announced as open for public access on <a href="/wiki/UseNet" class="mw-redirect" title="UseNet">UseNet</a> (a world-wide bulletin board system) in February 1991 (Curtis, personal communication).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>MOO was originally developed as a <a href="/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon" title="Multi-user dungeon">MUD</a> server in the same general style (sharing much of the command syntax and community conventions) as <a href="/wiki/TinyMUD" class="mw-redirect" title="TinyMUD">TinyMUD</a>. </p><p>There are currently<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (December 2022)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> two distributions of the MOO server code. The more popular of the two, the LambdaMOO server, is named such as indication of the close historical and continuing association of the MOO server code with the first public MOO, LambdaMOO. </p><p>The LambdaMOO version of MOO that gained popularity in the early 1990s, and it remains<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (December 2022)">as of?</span></a></i>]</sup> the most widely used MOO distribution. Pavel Curtis continued to maintain the server for several years. Other early contributors to the LambdaMOO server included users Tim Allen ("Gemba"), "Gary_Severn", Roger Crew ("Rog"), Judy Anderson ("yduJ"), and Erik Ostrom (known as "Joe Feedback"). Later, Erik Ostrom maintained the server, and the server is now maintained by Ben Jackson and Jay Carlson and has a LambdaMOO <a href="/wiki/SourceForge.net" class="mw-redirect" title="SourceForge.net">SourceForge.net</a> project. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Social_behavior_on_MOOs">Social behavior on MOOs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Social behavior on MOOs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Behavior on social MOOs and role-playing MOOs has been shown to differ. For example, an early study looked at whether users engaged in gender-switching (that is, adopting a different gender online). The majority of participants (60 percent) in social MOOs had never engaged in gender-switching, while the majority (56.7 percent) in role-playing MOOs had done so. However, most of those engaged in gender-switching did so on average only 10 percent of the time. The study also found that the primary barrier to gender-switching was the belief that it is dishonest and manipulative.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_projects_based_on_MOO">Current projects based on MOO</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Current projects based on MOO"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Time-context plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_currentevent_yellow.svg/50px-Ambox_currentevent_yellow.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_currentevent_yellow.svg/75px-Ambox_currentevent_yellow.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_currentevent_yellow.svg/100px-Ambox_currentevent_yellow.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section is about an event or subject <b>that may not be current but does not specify the time period</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit">improve it</a> to include this information. The <a href="/wiki/Talk:MOO" title="Talk:MOO">talk page</a> may contain suggestions. <span style="font-size:85%;"><i>(December 2022)</i></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><b>Stunt</b> is a backward compatible fork of the latest MOO server code. It adds multiple inheritance, anonymous objects, native HTTP support, JSON parsing and generation, a native map datatype, and better cryptography primitives.</li> <li><b>Codepoint</b> is an effort to extend LambdaMOO to support Unicode characters. Originally the project was started by <a href="/wiki/H._Peter_Anvin" title="H. Peter Anvin">H. Peter Anvin</a> using libucd, a small library that implements features of the <a href="/wiki/Unicode_Character_Database" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicode Character Database">Unicode Character Database</a> without being unwieldy. The project is now being developed by James C. Deikun, Robert Leslie, and Kenny Root with the goal of eventually integrating it into the main LambdaMOO distribution.</li> <li><b>ToastStunt</b> is a fork of the Stunt server intended primarily to add new features. These include 64-bit integers, SQLite support, Perl-compatible regular expressions, background threaded functions, Argon2id hashing, telnet IAC capturing, profiling support, performance improvements, and dozens of additional built-in functions and improvements.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Non-descendant_MOOs">Non-descendant MOOs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Non-descendant MOOs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some servers use "MOO" style object-oriented characteristics without being descended from the original MOO server, in the sense that they use little or none of that server's source code and use internal languages that are more or less incompatible with the MOO programming language. None of them have attained the popularity of LambdaMOO or its relatives.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Stephen White went on to write a new and similar system called CoolMUD, although it never obtained the same wide userbase as MOO. Another, later, attempt at a programmable object-oriented MUD server was ColdMUD, written by Greg Hudson and later maintained by Brandon Gillespie under the name "Genesis".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One unusual MOO with no real relationship to the original MOO is called mooix. mooix is unique among MUDs in that it uses the underlying UNIX operating system to handle all of the <a href="/wiki/Computer_multitasking" title="Computer multitasking">multitasking</a> and <a href="/wiki/Computer_network" title="Computer network">networking</a> issues. Several unique side effects result from this, one of which is that the MOO can be programmed in any language. mooix was written after a failed attempt by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Joey_Hess&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joey Hess (page does not exist)">Joey Hess</a> to write a MOO entirely in Perl, called perlmoo.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Access">Access</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Access"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Participants (usually referred to as users) connect to a MOO using <a href="/wiki/Telnet" title="Telnet">telnet</a> or some other, more specialized, client program. Upon connection, they are usually presented with a welcome message explaining how to either create a new character or connect to an existing one. </p><p>Almost every command is parsed by the server into a call on a MOO procedure, or verb, which actually does the work. Thus, programming in the MOO programming language is a central part of making non-trivial extensions to the database and hence the <a href="/wiki/Virtual_reality" title="Virtual reality">virtual reality</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administration">Administration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/MOO" title="Special:EditPage/MOO">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">June 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>All MOOs provide a flag called <i><a href="/wiki/Wizard_(MUD)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wizard (MUD)">Wizard</a></i>; when set on a player, the player gains the ability to view and modify nearly everything in the MOOs database. Such players usually form the basis for MOO administration. Designated owners of a MOO are sometimes referred to as Archwizards. </p><p>These wizards can restrict access to the MOO, as well as make news postings and monitor logs. Wizard permissions are needed for modification and even execution of verbs and properties for which the user does not own, or is not publicly readable/writable. All verbs and properties within objects have the appropriate flags, with the user can change to determine its current state. They can also assign global names to objects which builders and programmers will then use to create new content on the MOO. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_examples">Notable examples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notable examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be <b>updated</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2022</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Social_MOOs">Social MOOs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Social MOOs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/LambdaMOO" title="LambdaMOO">LambdaMOO</a></i> was created alongside the server, and has continued despite server development having slowed. It was the first public MOO.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>JaysHouseMOO</i> was a social MOO started by Jay Carlson at Minnesota State University at Mankato in 1992. It had the first gopher server implemented in MOO language.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also noted by Netscape as having a web server as well.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 90's, it was considered the hangout of the MOO programmer elite.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notable among them were former and current LambdaMOO code maintainers Roger Crew, Erik Ostrom, Jay Carlson, and Ben Jackson.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="BayMOO"></span><i>BayMOO</i> is a social MOO founded in October 1993. It is based on loosely on <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> and its surrounding areas. For part of its life it was hosted at <a href="/wiki/SFSU" class="mw-redirect" title="SFSU">SFSU</a>. BayMOO also hosted FactoryNet a custom MOO for <a href="/wiki/NIST" class="mw-redirect" title="NIST">NIST</a>. In December 1994 it was one of the MOOs chosen to host <a href="/wiki/Aerosmith" title="Aerosmith">Aerosmith</a>'s four-day "Cyberspace Tour" which was co-sponsored by <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">EFF</a>. Earlier that year it had also hosted a meeting of the <a href="/wiki/Cypherpunk" title="Cypherpunk">Cypherpunks</a>. Part of SunNET and GNA-NET intermoo networks.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>IDMOO</i> is a New York-based MOO that was started by some programmers from LambdaMOO and PMCMOO who felt that MOO spaces were becoming too dominated by societal conventions developed for nonvirtual spaces. IDMOO was online for several years in the late 1990s and is notable for having hosted an early virtual BDSM community and the <a href="/wiki/Plaintext_Players" title="Plaintext Players">Plaintext Players</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="anchor" id="SchoolNetMOO"></span><i><a href="/wiki/SchoolNet" title="SchoolNet">SchoolNet</a> MOO</i> started in the mid 1990s and was funded by <a href="/wiki/SchoolNet" title="SchoolNet">SchoolNet</a> until 1998, when it was renamed to <i>MOO Canada, Eh?</i> SchoolNet MOO was particularly popular in the Ottawa, Canada region due to its use by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Virtual_Ventures&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Virtual Ventures (page does not exist)">Virtual Ventures</a> at <a href="/wiki/Carleton_University" title="Carleton University">Carleton University</a>, and a member of <a href="/wiki/Actua" class="mw-redirect" title="Actua">Actua</a> (known as YES-VACC at these times) as a computer programming educational platform for youths of ages 8–18.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Research_MOOs">Research MOOs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Research MOOs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="anchor" id="MediaMOO"></span><i>MediaMOO</i> is designed for professional media researchers now hosted at Northern Illinois University's Department of English. It was originally created in 1993 by <a href="/wiki/Amy_Bruckman" class="mw-redirect" title="Amy Bruckman">Amy Bruckman</a> at the Epistemology and Learning Group at the <a href="/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab" title="MIT Media Lab">MIT Media Lab</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-carton_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-carton-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In its heyday around 1996, MediaMOO had over 1000 members, was governed by an elected council, and hosted frequent meetings, including the Tuesday Cafe, a weekly discussion of members of the Computers and Writing community. It is still accessible, though largely inactive, and is no longer supervised by Bruckman.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Educational_MOOs">Educational MOOs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Educational MOOs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Diversity_University" title="Diversity University">Diversity University</a></i>, the first dedicated educational MOO, created by Jeanne McWhorter in 1993.</li> <li><i><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238216509">.mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#b1d2ff}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}</style><span class="vanchor"><span id="MOOSE_Crossing"></span><span class="vanchor-text">MOOSE Crossing</span></span></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Constructionist_learning" class="mw-redirect" title="Constructionist learning">constructionist learning</a> educational MOO designed for teaching children ages 9 to 13.<sup id="cite_ref-netps_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-netps-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was developed by <a href="/wiki/Amy_S._Bruckman" title="Amy S. Bruckman">Amy S. Bruckman</a> in 1996 as her doctoral dissertation work,<sup id="cite_ref-bruckman-phd_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bruckman-phd-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and cited among "the most notable MOO research in education".<sup id="cite_ref-tornberg_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tornberg-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It closed in 2007 after 11 years online.<sup id="cite_ref-mc-closed_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mc-closed-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="anchor" id="BioMOO"></span><i>BioMOO</i> was a professional MOO started by Gustavo Glusman and Jaime Prilusky at the <a href="/wiki/Weizmann_Institute_of_Science" title="Weizmann Institute of Science">Weizmann Institute of Science</a> in 1993. It was a virtual place for Biology researchers to meet to brainstorm, hold colloquia and conferences, and explore the serious side of MOOs as a medium.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These professional activities were recognized in an article entitled "Cyberspace Offers Chance To Do 'Virtually' Real Science" published in the journal <i>Science</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> BioMOO Wizards created a portable subset of the BioMOO server, called the Virtual Conference Center, and submitted it as a paper at a virtual scientific conference <sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and used the VCC to host another virtual scientific conference.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> BioMOO sported a VR web interface.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During its eight years of activity, BioMOO hosted many professional activities including the Virtual School of Natural Sciences' courses on BioComputing and Principles of Protein Structure.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prilusky and Glusman also released in 1994 the File Utilities Package, a MOO server modification enabling direct but controlled access to the underlying file system.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Glusman also developed the intermoo GNA Network.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="LinguaMOO"></span><i>LinguaMOO</i> is an educational MOO dedicated to general studies of arts and humanities, created in 1995 by Cynthia Haynes of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Dallas" title="University of Texas at Dallas">University of Texas at Dallas</a> and Jan Rune Holmevik of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bergen" title="University of Bergen">University of Bergen</a>. Many educational MOOs use the enCore system, derived from LinguaMOO, for their MOO database core.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Haynes and Holmevik published two books on the educational use of MOOs.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>MundoHispano</i> was founded in 1994 by Lonnie (Turbee) Chu and Kenzi Mudge (Syracuse University), with co-directors Theresa Minick (Kent State University) and Greg Younger (The Economics Institute). It was the first MOO in Spanish, complete with Spanish commands and accents, built for native speakers, learners and teachers of Spanish. At its height it had over 4,000 user accounts logging on from over a dozen countries.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="Sindome"></span><i><a href="/wiki/ATHEMOO" title="ATHEMOO">ATHEMOO</a></i> started in 1995 at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Hawaii" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Hawaii">University of Hawaii</a> and was an online performance and teaching space for academics and professionals with an interest in theatre. At its height 2200 people were involved in ATHE and ATHEMOO.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MU*" title="MU*">MU*</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronology_of_MUDs" class="mw-redirect" title="Chronology of MUDs">Chronology of MUDs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Online_text-based_role-playing_game" title="Online text-based role-playing game">Online text-based role-playing game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyberformance" title="Cyberformance">Cyberformance</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MOO&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-shah-romine-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-shah-romine_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFShahRomine1995" class="citation book cs1">Shah, Rawn; Romine, James (1995). <i>Playing MUDs on the Internet</i>. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 238. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-471-11633-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-471-11633-5"><bdi>0-471-11633-5</bdi></a>. <q>For example, the MOO (Muds Object-Oriented) is a direct result of work in this area.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Playing+MUDs+on+the+Internet&rft.pages=238&rft.pub=John+Wiley+%26+Sons%2C+Inc.&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=0-471-11633-5&rft.aulast=Shah&rft.aufirst=Rawn&rft.au=Romine%2C+James&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMOO" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-taylor-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-taylor_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-taylor_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTaylor2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/T.L._Taylor" class="mw-redirect" title="T.L. Taylor">Taylor, T.L.</a> (2006-02-24). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/playbetweenworld0000tayl/page/23"><i>Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture</i></a>. 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New Riders. p. 11. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-13-101816-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-13-101816-7"><bdi>0-13-101816-7</bdi></a>. <q>One player, Stephen White, decided in 1990 to extend the functionality of TinyMUD and write TinyMUCK (muck being a kind of mud). 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