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rec.games.mud.admin - 1 post - 1 author - Last post: Feb 23, 2002

1961 - University of Illinois introduces and patents PLATO, "Programmed Logic ... This ruleset will
go on to inspire Dungeons and Dragons. ..... Zork was "derived" from Advent
> in that we played Advent, liked it, wished it were better, and tried to do a "better" one. ...
Kelton Flinn 1978 Roy Trubshaw begins MUD1 development.
http://groups.google.com/g/6417ff02/t/.../d/bf9373a4841c7434?hl=en&ie...

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rec.games.mud.misc - 6 posts - 3 authors - Last post: May 1, 2000

1961 University of Illinois introduces and patents PLATO, "Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching
... This ruleset will go on to inspire Dungeons and Dragons. .... Lebling & Blanc
start work on Zork on the PDP-10, inspired by ADVENT. ... In the fall, he and Richard
Bartle complete the first version, which runs on a PDP-10.
http://groups.google.com/g/d697ff06/t/.../d/e2e895e8a7e55470?hl=en&ie...

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