I spent (wasted?) a lot of time playing and eventually administering a MUD back in the 90s and early 2000s. The big draw of the MUD wasn’t necessarily the game aspect, although that was important, it was the people that I got to hang out with while on there.

In fact, the two guys that started the MUD worked together at Inktomi (now owned by Yahoo!) and got me a job there in early ‘99 that I was in for almost 4 years.

I’m still in touch with a few of the guys from the MUD, and of course Facebook and other popular social networking tools make it a lot easier to get back in touch.

Digging in my various archives, I discovered the source code for the MUD. It doesn’t easily compile any more, so I got back in touch with John who was the original coder … 10 minutes later he was trying to get the thing to compile so we can keep the spirit of Razor’s alive!

I’m still rooting through bugs, but things will be up and running soon. Once they are I’ll post an update.