~ Early Web Links ~

Dark and Shattered Lands (DSL) is one of the longest-running MUDs on the internet, set in the richly detailed fantasy world of Algoron with kingdoms, clans, races, and deep lore. The site offers extensive resources including equipment lists, maps, a wiki, clan war standings, competitive leagues like the Gladiator League, and a podcast for this thriving text-based RPG community.

Ymusk is a MUSH client written in Perl by a developer named Yenzie, offering features like ANSI color support, text filters, multi-input boxes, spell-checking, and an ICQ-like GUI for managing pages. The site hosts multiple versioned releases with screenshots, a user guide, and CVS access, making it a practical hub for MUSH players looking for a customizable Telnet-based client.

Textfire.de hosts a detailed review and technical breakdown of TxA, a text adventure authoring system by Viktor Krammer designed for MS-DOS and Linux. The site covers TxA's compiler/interpreter architecture, its scripting language syntax, block structures like [INIT], [ROOM], and [INVENTORY], and serves as part of a broader German-language resource hub for interactive fiction enthusiasts.

Friday-girl's personal site doubles as an archive of permadeath logs and funny moments from MUD2, the classic text-based multiplayer game. The collection of 'Stupid Deaths' makes it a quirky and niche resource for fans of old-school text MUDs.

ifMUD is a long-running PerlMUD-based chat server built around the interactive fiction community, where players can connect via telnet or a web client to socialize and discuss IF. The site provides account registration, an official FAQ maintained by community members, and connection details for this beloved gathering place for text adventure enthusiasts.

Mystic Adventure is a free-to-play medieval fantasy MUD (multi-user dungeon) featuring over 20,000 rooms, unique classes and races, creative quests, and a welcoming player community. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering guides on connecting via MUD clients, character creation, crafting, clans, and maps for new and veteran players alike.

Scott Neal Reilly's Interactive Fiction Page is a comprehensive directory of resources for both players and developers of text-based adventure games, with links to FTP archives, FAQs, reviews, platform-specific game collections, and community publications like SPAG and XYZZYnews. Maintained by a former CMU researcher who later worked at Zoesis Studios on interactive characters, the site bridges classic text-based IF with emerging realtime interactive storytelling.

A page documenting Regenesis, a graphical LP-MUD hosted by Lysator (Linköping University) that supported X11, Amiga, Mac, and MS-DOS graphical clients to render in-game imagery alongside text. The MUD used the BSX protocol developed by Bram Stolk to deliver visual context to players, making it a notable early experiment in graphical multi-user dungeon gameplay from the early 1990s.

Threshold RPG is one of the oldest active role-playing-enforced MUDs on the internet, having opened to the public in June 1996 and running 24/7 for players worldwide. The site serves as a comprehensive portal for the game, covering character creation, guilds, races, religions, quests, economy, and an extensive bestiary of monsters to encounter in its high fantasy world.

IB Games is the home of Federation, a long-running space trading and exploration MUD that has been running since the 1980s, making it one of the oldest online multiplayer games in existence. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering downloads, documentation, and community resources for players of this pioneering text-based virtual world.