~ Early Web Links ~

IgorMUD (also known as Pussgurkabunnyluvmud) is the official web portal for a telnet-accessible MUD, offering players and wizards guides to guilds, areas, monsters, and the game's history. The site includes sections for both players and builders, covering the approval process, design guides, programming tools, and community boards.

Aarchon MUD is a long-running fantasy text-based multiplayer game featuring 16 classes, over 60 races, and nearly 10,000 rooms to explore across 85 unique zones. Players can join clans, craft gear, brew potions, compete on leaderboards, and tackle quests in a richly detailed world maintained by an active development team.

Age of Chaos is a long-running text-based MUD inspired by Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time universe, featuring 22,000+ rooms, 14 character classes, 8 races, and a rich PvP and PvE system that has been active since 1997. Players can dive into clan wars, custom crafting, ancient race progression, and a massive labyrinth, all accessible via a custom client or any standard MUD client.

Lost Wishes is a long-running fantasy MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) that has been running since 1995, featuring five distinct domains, over 313 areas, 163 quests, and 13 unique guilds including Dragonspawn, Necromancers, and Werewolves. With browser-based play available for free and an active community spanning 27 player countries, it remains a thriving destination for classic text-based online roleplaying.

A German-language forum thread dedicated to interactive fiction and text adventures, featuring a user-contributed German translation of the Undum tutorial by Ian Millington. The post by StJohn Limbo aims to help German-speaking authors create CYOA and multiple-choice adventures using the Undum framework, lowering the barrier for non-English speakers.

RetroMUD is a free, text-based online fantasy roleplaying game (MUD) featuring over 100 levels of play, six distinct worlds, and dozens of quests that players can access from desktop or mobile clients. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering player rankings, help files, donation options, and connection instructions for a variety of MUD clients including Mudlet and MUSHClient.

IFDB is a comprehensive catalog and recommendation engine for interactive fiction and text adventures, maintained as a wiki-style community project by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. Visitors can browse thousands of game listings, read and submit reviews, participate in competitions, and discover new works through polls and curated recommendation lists.

TADS (Text Adventure Development System) is the official home of a free, professional-grade authoring toolkit for creating interactive fiction, maintained by Michael J. Roberts. The site offers downloads, comprehensive manuals, code examples, and community links for both TADS 2 and TADS 3, making it an essential hub for serious IF developers.

Top MUD Sites is a long-running ranking directory that catalogued the best MUDs and text-based RPGs on the internet, ordered by visitor votes and featuring a database of hundreds of games. Though now read-only and going inactive, it preserves an all-time top 100 list covering classics like Aardwolf, Achaea, and Discworld alongside forums, reviews, and articles about the MUD genre.

A legacy archive preserving the history of Majik 3D MMORPG, a volunteer-driven open-source online roleplaying game active from 1995 to 2002 that evolved from a text-based MUD through a 2D roguelike into a full 3D world. Maintained by the original developer namhas, the site hosts over 3,300 files including source code on GitHub, archived mailing lists, forums, screenshots, and design documents chronicling one of the early indie MMORPGs with player-controlled economies and ecosystems.