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MUDs are how I began programming, about 30 years ago at the age of 16. Now I'm a senior engineer making mobile games. Unsurprisingly I focus on the backend.

MUDs taught me C, devops, multiplayer/sockets, security to some extent, databases (I wrote my own MUD that used MySQL). Also HTML/webpages eventually. MUDs taught me the full stack.

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I began with a MUD too. Though for me it was.. mIRC scripting of all things lol. I knew nothing of programming and spent many, many hours learning patterns through brute force obsession.

I wonder what would have been of my life had i not encountered mIRC.

Similar story here! They are great platforms to create and explore with. Built up CircleMUD 1995-1999 here.

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