"...Meridian 59, the first computer game that allowed people from around the world to gather and quest together via the Internet."
Have these people never heard of a MUD?
Have these people never heard of a MUD?
In retrospect, there were a lot of things that Meridian wanted to claim we were first at, but there were people who beat us on almost everything: graphics in a MUD, 3D controls to a virtual world, etc. The one exception MAY be that we were the first MMO/MUD to have a box product and a subscription fee (most online games before us used daily or hourly charges, but we came out right around when AOL changed the billing model, and everyone else rearranged their billing models to match).