[beardedwizard]

Simply untrue.

There have been hundreds of MUD clients and many of them were not purely text based at all. Many had images and map screens built in.

[rascul]

MUDs are text based. Some of the clients can have graphical features but the basic way to interface with the MUD itself is with text.

[beardedwizard]

HTTP is a text based protocol, nobody is arguing websites are muds.

Let's skip the strange purity tests and engage in good faith discussion.

[jghn]

Tho it wasn't unheard of for some MU* games to have ascii graphics in the telnet stream