RE: [MUD-Dev] Noise: boys will be boys (was Re: [MUD-Dev] Multi-threaded mud server.)

["Koster, Raph" <rkoster#origin,ea.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ola Fosheim Grøstad [mailto:olag#ifi,uio.no]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 7:16 PM
> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Noise: boys will be boys (was Re: [MUD-Dev]
> Multi-threaded mud server.)
> 
> MY goals are B I G G E R.  MUCH BIGGER!  I am going to write 
> a distributed
> server that is also a sneaky worm.  It will eat all the spare 
> time on all
> the servers on the entire internet. And then some.  My client will be
> implemented as a Word macro virus that displays hypnotic patterns
> communicating seductive messsages. "play with me, play with 
> me, play with
> me".  Then I will be God.

This is literally the plot of an SF novel I recently read called,
appropriately enough, "Worm." Actually, listmembers should probably go read
it, it's about muds. :) Not future VRs or anything--TODAY'S muds (except for
the distributed mud server that becomes self-aware and thinks it is God).
Rather amusing.

-Raph


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