You guys are bringing back some good memories Back in 1991-1994 my best friend and I ran a very popular MUD out of the University of Texas @ Austin called Renegade Outpost. We ran there until our game was literally sucking UT's computer department dry of resources lol.

Back then the internet was new and the majority of people with internet access were in college or part of some major computer corporation. In hilarious code collaborations we'd have people from IBM, Apple, even the Pentagon helping to work out bugs. One of our gods/coders went on to be one of the first developers of EQ1.

We topped out with around 30,000 characters and the capacity of 200 users online at a time. After my friend and I left college we turned the game over to people interested in keeping it going. They've done a great job as it's still up and playable! http://www.renegadeoutpost.com/

If typing at 2-3 Sun workstations at the same time counts as multiboxing I did that all the time

MUDS weren't my first game of that type. My first multiuser D&D game was called Scepter of Goth circa 82-84. We payed 10$ an hour to play on a 300 baud modem. GamBit/Scepter of Goth were like the father of the MUDS. In the end MUDS were far more advanced than Scepter ever dreamed of becoming. It deserves credit though for being the first MUD type game.

All this nostalgia got me to rambling