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MUDhead
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mudhead
English
Etymology
From en MUD<id:multi-user dungeon> head.
Noun
en mudhead.
en 11 November 1992 N Allen Cheesman Mud Research alt.mud https://groups.google.com/g/alt.mud/c/LbFPZOzOEt4/m/m1mhFmiPpYkJ I'll admit I USED to be a serious MUDhead. The fact is, I saw my grades and reformed myself. MUD's were addictive for me because they were such an incredibly different thing from what I'd ever seen before.
en 7 October 1994 Dorian Dowse Australian MU* ban: Still in effect? rec.games.mud.misc https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.mud.misc/c/EVjFNy6rgDQ/m/J5pJpbssnmMJ The ban was by AARNET, the Australian Uni net, to discourage students from wasting their bandwidth. Fortunately, the demand for non-edu internet access got so huge that AARNET set up a commercial arm to supply internet access to us very unacademic MUDheads.
en 2016 Jeffery Deaver The Blue Nowhere 104 “Is anybody still playing it now? On the Internet, I mean.”“I doubt it. Real MUDheads were so offended by it that they sabotaged the games and spammed the players