The Lost Library of MOO

The Lost Library of MOO really did become lost, when lucien.[sims.]berkeley.edu was taken offline. Bryan Lewis of SIMS was good enough to give us the top-level page of the site -- all the documents that had been kept onsite were gone, but we've done our best to rediscover them wherever they may be and to reconstruct them where they were not readily available. Thanks for helping recover these docs belong to: Bryan Lewis Jason Nolan Winslow Sam Gillis Tom Martin And thanks, finally, to Jerome McDonough, who first created this repository, and by whose kind permission we now host and maintain it.

Manuals, Tutorials, and FAQs

• The LambdaMOO Programmers Manual
• The LambdaCore Programmers Manual
• The LambdaCore User Manual
• LambdaMOO Server Source at sourceforge.net

• The Official MOO-Cows FAQ
• The Newbie ArchWiz FAQ
• Colin Moock's MUD Starter Kit
• Canton Becker's MOO Tutorial
• A Duck Tutorial by yduJ
• Yet Another Duck Tutorial
• How to Build A Room with the #854 Parent by Joan Cole/Lelandra
• The Cow Ate My Brain, or A Novice's Guide to MOO Programming by Lloyd Blankenship
• MacMOO Server README
• "Don't be a TinyJerk!" from MUDs: Exploring Virtual Worlds on the Internet by David Ciskowski and Claire Benedikt, from Macmillan Computer Publishing (Brady Imprint), May 1995. The basics on how to behave.
• The MOO Command Quick Reference
• yduJ's MOO Lore Pamphlet
• Introduction technique au MOO (in French; slides for teaching at TECFA)
• MacMOO FAQ page

Don't forget about the Semi-Official MOO Patch Repository and Archive - missing.

Lost Manuals etc

• How to Make a Ball by Hackberry

MOO Research Papers

• Interactive Multi-User Computer Games by Dr. Richard Bartle
• TinySex is Safe Sex by Claire Benedikt. First appeared as "Thoughts on Cyberspace and Safe Sex" in Passionate Living Magazine (Nov. 1994); reprinted under this title in Infobahn Magazine (June 1995).
• Gender Swapping on the Internet by Amy S. Bruckman Text format or PostScript format
• Identity Workshop: Emergent Social and Psychological Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Reality(PostScript) by Amy Bruckman
• Programming for Fun: MUDs as a Context for Collaborative Learning by Amy Bruckman Text format or PostScript
• The MediaMOO Project: Constructionism and Professional Community by Amy Bruckman and Mitchel Resnick
• Moose Crossing Proposal (PostScript) by Amy Bruckman
• Defining a Design Language in text-based Virtual Community by Anna Cicognani
• On the Linguistic Nature of Cyberspace and Virtual Communities(PDF) by Anna Cicognani
• The realms system, collaboration and administration in MOO environments by Bradley Dilger
• Gender Differences in Text-Based Virtual Reality by Lynn Cherny
• The Modal Complexity of Speech Events in a Social Mud by Lynn Cherny
• The Situated Behavior of MUD Back Channels(PDF) by Lynn Cherny
• "Objectifying" the Body in the Discourse of an Object-Oriented MUD by Lynn Cherny
• Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities by Pavel Curtis
• Miscommunication in Multi-modal Collaboration (PostScript) by David Traum and Pierre Dillenourg. From working notes of the AAAI Workshop on Detecting, Repairing, And Preventing Human--Machine Miscommunication, August 1996.
• Grounding in Multi-modal Collaboration (PostScript) by Pierre Dillenbourg, David Traum, and Daniel Schneider. From the EuroAI&Education Conference, October 1996.
• Implications from a study on multi-modal collaborative problem solving by P. Dillenbourg, P. Jermann, D. Schneider, D. Traum, and C. Buiu. Proceedings 8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Kobe, Japan.
• Collaborative Networked Communication: MUDs as Systems Tools by Rémy Evard
• Building Blocks of Text-Based Virtual Environments by G. Scott Evans
• Muds in Education: New Environments, New Pedagogies by Tari Lin Fanderclai
• What's An Agent? by Leonard N. Foner
• On-line help: Considering the possibilities for facilitating social services through textual worlds by Heather J. Kelley
• Being There: The Use of Cyberspace in Computer-Mediated Communication(PostScript) by Jerome McDonough
• Collaborative Information Retrieval: Gopher from MOO by Larry Masinter and Erik Ostrom
• House of Words -- Designing Text and Community in MOO Environments by John Maxwell (PDF version)
• Communication in the Virtual Classroom by Colin Moock
• An application of Gowin's Vee Heuristic Model to Educational Research into Multi-User Simulated Environments as a Mechanism for Applying the Story Model to Transformative and Holistic Learning Situations by D. Jason Nolan
• Lust for Life: A discussion which considers the possibility of applying ideas of Integrated Curriculum development with Moos by D. Jason Nolan, who says, "Beware! This paper is both personal and informal at points."
• Muds Grow Up: Social Virtual Reality in the Real World by Pavel Curtis and David A. Nichols
• Electropolis: Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat by Elizabeth M. Reid
• Cultural Formations in Text-Based Virtual Realities by Elizabeth Reid
• Virtual Reality: Reflections of Life, Dreams and Technology -- An Ethnography of a Computer Society by Michael S. Rosenberg
• The Psycho-Social Aspects of Multi-User Dimensions in Cyberspace : a review of the literature by James Sempsey III
• Internet Conferencing with Networked Virtual Environments by John Towell and Elizabeth Towell (first appeared in Internet Research)
• Analysis of MOO and WOO Environments by Sandrine Tognotti, Daniel K. Schneider, and Patrick Mendelsohn.
• Presence in Text-Based Networked Virtual Environments or "MUDS" by John Towell and Elizabeth Towell (first appeared in Presence)
• Presence in Front of the Fourth Wall of Cyberspace by Monika Wunderer (first appeared in Theatre in Cyberspace)

Other MOO Paper Collections

• Amy Bruckman's MOO Papers
• The ChibaMOO papers
• The TecfaMOO papers
• Anna Cicognani's collection of papers and articles
• The NooDDLe Project -- John Maxwell's reports and other stuff associated with his Master's thesis on designing a MOO for distance education of high school law students.
• Elizabeth Reid Steere's Internet Culture papers
• Journal of Virtual Environments at Brandeis University
• LinguaMOO Archive
• MediaMOO Papers
• MOO Papers Pointers from ACTLab, U. Texas x
• MOO-WWW Research Directory
• J. Nolan's collection of Academic & Other writings about Muds & Moos
• More from J. Nolan on Holon-ZenMoo
• David Barberi's Xynchronous Communications Papers archive
• Brent Wilson's Papers - many on the subject of learning communities and Internet pedagogy.
• Works and Days 25/26, Vol. 13, Nos. 1 and 2, 1995 Special Issue -- CyberSpaces: Pedagogy and Performance on the Electronic Frontier
• LambdaMOO's collection of MOO papers

General MOO/MU* Resource Pages

• tkMOO-light, the Lost Librarian's favorite MOO client. Runs on UNIX, Windows, and Mac.
• moock's MUDding Guide
• The MUD Resource Collection
• MOOville help files
• Lingua MOO Home Page
• The MOOring Homepage of a webring of MOO-related websites.
• Diversity University's Home Page
• BioMOO
• Rachel's Super MOO List
• LitMUSE's resources page - very thorough
• The WWW VL: Educational Technology -- Educational VR (MUD) sub-page
• Muds, Moos & Mushes: Hip-Waders in the CMC Swamp

Lost Resource Pages

• Winslow's MOO Resources! page
• MOOcentral Good for those of you interested in educational uses of MOO
• The Plastic Mud Index A general, searchable to online MOO/MU* resources
• The Borderlands MOOspace
• MOOcentral - lists of MOOs by category (General Ed, University-specific, K-12, Professional, etc etc) and a few additional resources.
• Gurk's (formerly BOB(c)'s) MOOGate - "the biggest list of MOOs on the web"
• MUDLINKS
• Computer Writing & Research Labs' Mush & MOO page includes FAQs, clients, tutorials, Reference, etc.
• The Mizzou MOO page
• More about MOOs from the Instructional Technology Program at U.C. Berkeley
• MOOtropolis Home Page
• General MOO Information page at CalTech

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