DikuMUD

DikuMUD is a Video game of adventure multijouor, based on textual descriptions. It is thus a play of the type Multi-User Dungeon , more commonly called MUD. It was creates between 1990 and 1991 by Sebastian Hammer, Tom Madsen, Katja Nyboe, Michael Seifert, and Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, with the DIKU (Datalogisk Institut Københavns Universitet), the department of computer sciences at the university of Copenhagen, in Denmark.

Often fore-mentioned simply " Diku" , it was largely inspired by AberMUD, the first MUD on Internet. It was the first play multi player with becoming popular, thanks to its exemption from payment, with its Gameplay attracting and its similarities with Dungeons & Dragons.

There was a small controversy, on Usenet, at the end of 1990 - at the beginning of 2000, with Bernard Yee, the director of development for Everquest . After a conference where Yee declared that Everquest was derived from Diku, some imagined that the code even EQ was based on that of the MUD. Finally the Interactive on March 17th, 2000, Verant and Brad McQuaid him even, as well as the team of Diku, announced that this controversy was not founded.

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