Prominence
Raph Koster, the lead designer of Ultima Online, wrote a FAQ entry for Medievia,
"Medievia: The most popular free gaming mud I know of. Pioneered the use of things like in-game spam ads for themselves and lack of due credit given for code (:P) but also has things like ASCII map terrain, large algorithmically generated areas, etc."
Medievia is acknowledged to be popular by other sources than Koster, being noted in the mid-1990s as having over 100 players online at off-peak hours.
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