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by shawncplus 3500 days ago
I'm going to take a wild guess and say it was a MUD. Got into programming and the open source world the same way.
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xamuel 3500 days ago
Yep that's right! When I got out of academia and started interviewing around for CS it was quite interesting how many former MUDders there are in hiring positions :D
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shawncplus 3500 days ago
ha it was SMAUG for me too coincidentally enough. I still hack on it occasionally and eventually went on to make my own shitty codebase (RanvierMUD)
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