Task for week 1: MUD's and MOO's (characteristics and use)

A MUD is a Multi-user Dungeon. Since that might not quite clear things up , let's explain:
An imaginary world described by text only, where users can not only chat but use special, universally agreed upon commands to play games with each other.

A MOO is pretty much the same thing but in a MOO, as opposed to a Mud, users can perform programming-codes to alter things.

Both these things allow people worldwide to casually communicate and play together by setting up their own online imaginary persona.

It is basically a very basic form of things like World of Warcraft and similar games where users do pretty much the same thing but can make use of a virtual world in which they can visually customise their character. ( http://www.worldofwarcraft.com )

A nice way to pass the time for some but not useful for actual communiations when there are other, much more to-the-point ways of communication available for formal and contructive communications.

My personal experiences with any of these things? None, so far. But it could be an interesting thing to try in the next few weeks to see what it's like and perhaps post something on the blog about.