AberMUD was the first popular
MUD which college students began playing in the
1980s. It was written, mainly, by
Alan Cox, also known as Anarchy, who had been a player on the original MUD at
Essex Univerisity[?] [1] (
http://www.ludd.luth.se/mud/aber/mud-history.html). It is named after the
University of
Aberystwyth, Wales[?]. Several dozen AberMUDs remain in operation, but in
2002 they have few players.
One AberMUD still in operation is Utopia at
telnet://utopia.mudservices.com 6789
After you log on you may by typing "info mudlist" obtain a rather outdated list of AberMUDs that were still in operation in 1998.