Recovering a Lost Document: Habitat Anecdotes (1988)
http://habitatchronicles.com/2026/04/habitat-anecdotes/

> As of today I am quitting Habitat. It costs too much. I have been a Q-Link subscriber for 2 years. The first year I used only 2 plus hours. ($10) The next year I used only 5. ($25) But in the last month, while I was playing Habitat I spent $270!!! I can’t afford that. You need to make it cheaper.

$270 = 57 hours or over 100 times his previous peak usage!

We must have made it “too much fun!”
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#habitat #mud #vr

Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks.

This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995

I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere.

#HashtagAbuse

Junky summary of me running #lambdaMOO myself on a 64 bit system.

Simple details such that you can do exactly what I have done. Debugging mood, not a high-quality-writing mood.

https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/1484719/lambdamooing-at-all-me-working-around-classic-32-bit-modern-64-bit-core-database-problem

#gamedev #devlog #mud .

The 32/64 database problem I think is that the change in integer width broke some listutils, which trivially stops @create and @dig working (important ones!) because the map_args over the aliases errors.

tl;dr
@edit #21:set_names
del #14
ins "return {name, {}};"

every single time i dig through tim cain's hundreds of videos, i find a new gem. today's find is tim discovering MUDs while he was working on his ph.d

he built an lpmud, and how it led to one of his mud coder friends (john price) becoming the lead coder on Starfleet Academy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lerxozozis

#mud #gamedev #startrek