Seeds of Fire in Dream

I was speaking to a friend of mine in Second Life last night, and I was trying to explain what it was like on the old text-based MUSHes I used to hang out in, back in the 80’s and a little in the 90’s. She could not believe that we actually wrote descriptions in text of everything, including ourselves, and that we had multiple “costumes” which were really just saved descriptions. It was hard to get across the idea of a “room” in MUSH.

But it quickly became very clear to me that Second Life owes a great deal to MUSH and similar early virtual world platforms. I just wish there was a way to simply and easily create the things that I used to merely describe with a lovely, long piece of descriptive texts.

We haven’t really gotten a good text-to-speech software solution; I think that a text-to-3D converter will take a bit longer.

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