Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Massively multiplayer online role-playing game" in English language version.
Richard Garriott first coined the term MMORPG in 1997.
(page 10): The ancestors of MMORPGS were text-based multiuser domains (MUDs) [...]
(page 291): Indeed, MUDs generate perhaps the one historical connection between game-based VR and the traditional program [...]
Year 1985 [...] "My memory says that Island of Kesmai went live on CompuServe on December 15, 1985, after a very long internal test. The price was actually $6 an hour for 300 baud, $12 for 1200 baud. Serious players paid the bucks." —Kelton Flinn
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Year 1985 [...] "My memory says that Island of Kesmai went live on CompuServe on December 15, 1985, after a very long internal test. The price was actually $6 an hour for 300 baud, $12 for 1200 baud. Serious players paid the bucks." —Kelton Flinn