Raph Koster has just uploaded the full, 62MB, 31,406-message archive of the seminal MUD-DEV list, the Ur-list where virtual world designers all started out, laying the groundwork for all the MMORPGs (like Second Life and World of Warcraft):
[I]it occurs to me that likely there are many readers who do not know why this matters. MUD-Dev was the principal location of high-level technical and design discussion for all forms of online world design – which was, of course mostly MUDs, but folks from Meridian 59, UO, Dark Sun Online, The Realm, EverQuest, and many of the other graphical worlds participated as well. Many of the snippets on the site come from there, and combing through these very archives was the source of the original Laws of Online World Design. There's a lot of accumulated wisdom there.
