What does MUD stand for?

Multi-User Domain

This definition appears very rarely

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Samples in periodicals archive:

As fifth graders learned to use avatars to interact with others in a multi-user domain, or MUD, experimentation with costumes, sexes and names increased sharply.

Playing for real in a virtual world: kids take on new identities, but ...

Weise and Cherny, a researcher at AT&T, filled "wiredwomen" with essays written by women who are Net insiders by profession (engineers, computer consultants, academics) or by avocation (long-term participants in various Net venues such as fan discussion groups and multi-user domains or MUDS, a kind of interactive theater).

BOOK OFFERS WOMEN'S VIEWS OF ONLINE WORLD

Online enthusiasts typically join "self-organizing" networks around often esoteric interests and hobbies, they experiment with personal role-playing in so-called multi-user domains (an outgrowth of the Dungeons and Dragons cults of the 1970s), and occasionally they become literally addicted to cyber experiences.

Sherry Turkle: "the computer as an intimate machine." (Industry Trend ...