User talk:Vincent Lextrait
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IT professional living in Antibes, France, having eclectic passions, especially about software, organization of work, archaeology, bibliophily, digital photography.
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[edit] MAD
In 1984, on BITNET, a cooperative worldwide university network founded in 1981, when we were two French students from the École des Mines de Paris, Bruno Chabrier and myself, we developed and operated a global MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) named "MAD" for "Multi Access Dungeon". It ran on the BITNET node of our school (FREMP11). MAD has been the first global MMORPG (see History of massively multiplayer online role-playing games), given that 1984-1985's Islands of Kesmai was limited to the US territory. MAD was the first MMORPG in Europe, and the first offered for free. Quickly, through a viral word of the mouth, 10% of BITNET nodes in the world were playing on the central MAD server, until BITNET administrators, frightened by the adoption of the game, ask the École des Mines to stop it. It had operated slightly less than two years. MAD has been installed on several other nodes in the world, until it was completely banned, as a consequence of its success, which had led BITNET several times to complete saturation. MAD was text-based (should rather say roguelike) and entirely written in REXX, a script language proposed on VM/370. MAD ran on the IBM 4341 of the École des Mines de Paris. It made use of a listening utility called "wakeup" developed by one of BITNET aficionados. It proposed initially only one, then several multi-storeys labyrinths full of mobile and communicating robots (NPC - Non-player character). These bots irreverently wore ENSMP professor names (which was highly appreciated by the players, including surprisingly the foreign ones - see below). Bots would typically shout a Vogon-like "I am a foul monster!". MAD offered in addition the possibility for avatars to chat with each other. Here is a 1986 connection log from MAD:
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It shows the very high frequency of connections, and their worldwide origin (University of Maine (USA) , University of Southern Maine Portland (USA), Queens College (USA), École des Mines de Paris (France), Weizmann Institute (Israel), Hautes Études Commerciales (France)). Hundreds of BITNET nodes have played the game.
[edit] Dvaravati
 7th century Mon/Dvaravati sandstone head of Buddha. Front. |
 7th century Mon/Dvaravati sandstone head of Buddha. Side. |
[edit] Thanks!
Thanks for spotting and removing the image I inserted into Nice. About time someone did! But I have to point out that it was made with the GIMP, not with Photoshop. JIP | Talk 16:10, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Terve. Point taken! :-)
[edit] Removing external links
Nice, Monaco and the French Riviera is a holiday destination, it is the main economic activity of the region. Your decision to remove external links that feature Detailed and Relevant information for people on holidays is incorrect. 10 million visitors every year need information relevant to them, not to residents.
Most of the search traffic to Wikipedia that finds these Nice, Monaco and French Riviera pages, are people researching holiday information.
The pages I am linking to are up-to-date, extremely well researched, relevant and extremely useful, and should be in Wikipedia. If anything it is the content-less sites created for advertising programmes that should have the links removed.Monacomike 10:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- You need to read about Wikipedia external links guidelines. You are more than welcome to remove any commercial link you find on the pages. There are lots remaining.
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