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Multi-User in Middle Earth (1992)
Best viewed in Mosaic.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +4 Power to a random card in your hand.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 1992
A text-only multiplayer game set in Tolkien's Middle-earth, played by typing commands into a terminal.
Students at EPFL in Lausanne built it on the DikuMUD engine, and it opened officially in January 1992. There are no pictures: everything is described in words. Volunteers still keep it running.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1992 page.
Put it on your site
Run Multi-User in Middle Earth, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1992. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1992, then plays a short scene. Want Multi-User in Middle Earth in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
