I am happy muds are still around
I started playing BatMUD when I was in high school. I was the number one player for a year or so. I remember soloing the FrogGod regularly. I remember Zonni. I was later a wiz and did some coding. I started playing in 1992.
I then decided I wanted to create my own mud. I co-founded DarkeMUD with one of my best friends. He is a very talented computer programmer. He wrote DarkeLIB which was a huge leap back then. He used it to get his first computer programming job as he was a self-taught coder. I designed the entire system and did the lighter coding. I based it on a roleplaying game called Rolemaster. The mud never took off which was a bummer, but it was fun anyways. I still think it was one of the best mud designs ever.
Anyways, nice to see people still play them.