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Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle built a text world at the University of Essex that many people inhabited at the same time. It named the genre and set the social patterns of every online world since.
The persistent shared world begins here, along with the abbreviation that named the form. Long before graphics or subscriptions, this program established that the compelling part of an online game is other players, and that a world continuing while you are away is qualitatively different from one that waits for you.
