@Jihgfed said in Intro to MU*ing Event:

I’ve been given the opportunity to put on a talk about our hobby, from its earliest 80s MUD days to the current state of field today, exploring it as a hobby, as a videogame, as a piece of computer history, as a community, as a form of art.

You might check out these three essays from 50 Years of Text Games, if you aren’t already familiar:
https://if50.substack.com/p/1980-mud
https://if50.substack.com/p/1990-lambdamoo
https://if50.substack.com/p/1997-achaea

How the heck do you pronounce “MU*s”, anyway? “Moos”?

Yes.