#moo — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #moo, aggregated by home.social.
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Out of curiosity, is anyone using the "rooM" moo server that is documented here: https://timbran.org ? I'm not familiar with either of the developers, but I do have an abiding soft spot for MOOs.
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Weird dog off to the dog park! [sound on for weird barking]
#IKnowItsACalf #moo #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour
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How 3 chefs in Hong Kong cook beef through the lens of home
It’s the same animal. In a Tuscan kitchen, it’s carved tableside as a ritual. In a Korean kitchen,…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #bisteccaallafiorentina #Born&Bred #cantonese #CarnabyDarioCecchini #DarioCecchini #Duddell's #hongkong #JungSang-won #Korean #MondrianHongKong #Moo-Lah #PanzanoinChianti #seoul #Tuscan #Tuscany
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2728980/how-3-chefs-in-hong-kong-cook-beef-through-the-lens-of-home/ -
Are you a fan of #MUD #MUSH #MOO games? You know, text-based games running over telnet? Now imagine that running over #ATproto.
Welcome to @[email protected] , an #ATmosphere MUD game you can play on your browser.
Come and join! atmud.net
#gaming #games (No, I'm not affiliated with them.)
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The other day I was discussing some article feedback I had gotten on Mastodon to my wife, who does not use Mastodon (or any other social media much). The next day, she asked if I had gotten "any more tweets or moos" about my article.
So now, this is a thing. "Did you get any moos today?"
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@baardhaveland it sounds as good an idea as prohibition was in 1919. soon we will have the os installing speakeasy. i'd call it cattle verification.
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after a lot of digging, TIL that the original programmer of MOO was Stephen White, a canadian who was a student at the U of Waterloo in ontario at the time. he also wrote TinyMUCK (a descendent of TinyMUD) in the same period, but it’s not clear to me how much overlap there was between those codebases.
edit: in case you’re unfamiliar with MOOs, MUCKs, MUSHes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOO
his AlphaMOO was then picked up by Pavel Curtis at Xerox PARC and rewritten into (beta, and then) LambdaMOO. everyone remembers Curtis’s contributions but I never see White mentioned.
what I find fascinating about this is that on the basis of pure code and design, MOOs and MUCKs are generally written with an eye for social interaction, creative expression, society-building and cooperation. compare that with the many descendents of MUDs which prioritize PvP and PvE combat/killing over all else.
the canadian connection is fascinating to me, because i don’t think this is accidental. there’s an implicit value shift in virtual world design at the code level. sure, people *can* build combat modules for MOOs and MUCKs, but they were not part of the base loadout.
when it comes to design, what you leave out is just as loud as what you put in.
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today’s research is a book of collected articles about MOOs. 25 years after the public virtual world boom, it’s refreshing finding that so much good research was done before it all collapsed in the late 2000s
